Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Section men quickly land on the courses' weaknesses and freely admit mistakes. "There are too many humanities and not enough sciences," means one. "Sections are alternately boring and delightful," comments another. But all agree the program has challenged the complacent Brown undergraduate as he has never been challenged before...
...Police admit that the addendum to their permission doesn't always have much effect. In fact, officers have had to silence trucks that were interrupting court proceedings. No one, as yet, has seen a policeman shooing a Councilman's truck away from the Square, and this is natural. If there were required registration for sound trucks, plus laws forbidding them access to such obvious places as hospitals and schools, the problem would be solved. Until then, students will live periodically shut off from nature by the closed windows that fruitlessly try to keep out the raucous strains of That...
...cent system, while solving many problems that arise from excluding a small percentage of the class, creates several all its own. For instance, the less select clubs are getting tired of having the responsibility for accepting the less desirable candidates while the big prestige clubs refuse to admit any one who does not measure up to their standards. While officials deny that there is any hierarchy of club prestige, lists compiled by clubmen, when asked to name the most prominent clubs are amazingly similar. The result is that some men, each year, withdraw their candidacy for club membership when...
Understandably enough, Princeton has never been quite sure whether or not it wants to admit this fact. At times officials have insisted that it is as much of a university as anyplace else; other times, they have admitted that it is not a university in quite the accepted sense, adding, however, that they never really wanted it to be anyway. President Harold W. Dodds expressed such an attitude when he said, "We shall continue to stress the college as the element which alone gives meaning to a university. We shall uphold the banner of the general as the only safe...
...controversy has not spread to the Admissions office; the Deans admit the most qualified applicants little knowing which type they're getting. William B. Craig, assistant Director of Admissions, emphasizes that policy in his office rarely changes. Just one decade ago, distribution in the entering classes was top-heavy with private school graduates. 80 per cent of the early 1940 classes were from prep schools; the figure is down now 55 per cent. "Many people, particularly our own graduates, think we are making special compensations for high school boys," Craig said. "This is not true...