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...percent for Harvard College Scholarships) is a step in the right direction; it increases the value of each award, making the scholarships somewhat more meaningful. The recommendation is misguided, however, in its revised method of choosing the winners of the awards. Honors should be awarded based on individual achievement??an absolute GPA cutoff—rather than achievement versus one’s classmates. Outstanding work should be recognized and honored regardless of how many other students have produced equally outstanding work. As long as these awards persist, the method by which they are awarded should...
Restructuring did away with the five “houses” that had made up CRLS, each with its own teachers and teaching philosophy. The houses had become segregated by race, income and academic achievement??and the so-called “small schools” that replaced them two years ago were supposed to even out those discrepancies...
...Director David S. Rosenthal ’59 called the change “a major achievement?? and said it had been much in demand from University students...
After completing his formal schooling and finishing his time in the armed services, Hirschman put to work both his medical and his radio skills to develop what he calls his most rewarding achievement??a system for transmitting electrocardiograph readings via radio. It was the first on-scene emergency care system to transmit medical data by radio...
...cost of personal and civil liberty. Of course, there are many countries in Southeast Asia (such as Indonesia) that offer their citizens neither liberty nor prosperity. So few countries have managed the difficult transition from Third World poverty to modern prosperity that Singapore’s achievement??at whatever cost—seems remarkable, and perhaps even admirable...