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...increase" in the ability of entering students, despite the lack of overall improved academic performance. With large numbers of high-quality rate applicants, the "academic center of gravity of the class has been raised" since most of the bottom quarter has been eliminated. The Class of '62 is "the ablest ever," he commented...
Labelling the Ford grant "a dramatic action," Francis Keppel, Dean of the School of Education said that the grant's size would make possible long-range planning. He stressed the need for "more imagination in the recruitment, training and use of the ablest persons for work in the schools...
...Socialists are not allowed to publish a newspaper, and have a hard time recruiting new members. Kurt Neubauer, perhaps the ablest of their leaders-who is a member of the West German Bundestag-operates out of an office in two stove-heated rooms on the ground floor of an old apartment house in East Berlin. A Socialist mass meeting that he got Communist permission to hold back in 1954 was such a success that the People's Police have since rejected applications for anything bigger than back-room rallies. And though the party is officially tolerated, members have been...
...least three colleagues; Tennessee's equally terrible-tempered Senator, the late Kenneth McKellar, once threatened to gavel Cannon's head during a conference committee hearing. But he is also the House's hardest-working member (roughly, from 10 a.m. to midnight seven days a week) and one of its ablest. Brought to Washington in 1911 as aide to Speaker Champ Clark, Lawyer Cannon became parliamentarian, began compiling his monumental Procedure and Precedents, by which the House still does business. In 1922 Cannon was elected to the House from Speaker Clark's old district, Missouri's Ninth ("The Bloody Ninth"), which...
...looking back over his ten-year administration at Smith, Wright reveals his bias in favor of scholarship, noting with the greatest satisfaction his extremely active role in attempting to bolster the College faculty. In the quest for the "ablest young people... we could find," Wright personally interviewed all prospective faculty members, always "trying to size people up--trying to determine whether they would make good teachers...