Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would also be easy for Harvard to admit a larger proportion of students who have been given the opportunity to reach a very high level of academic achievement in prep schools or very good public schools. But the risk of admitting students of uncertain preparation but promising potential should certainly continue to be taken. On the one hand predictions of future success based on previous preparation and performance is not particularly reliable; moreover such a policy would weaken the healthy effects of geographical distribution...
With a program so new, complications are prevalent and unavoidable. There is at this time no rapport between the College Board's concept of an advanced education in Romance Languages and the University's. Even in composition, seemingly an area definite enough to admit of clear-cut levels of attainment, the CEEB and Harvard are miles apart. This fall, students who had passed, even with honors, the composition (or "Language") portions of College Board Advanced Placement Tests in Romance Languages had absolutely no assurance of eventual Advanced Placement...
Brzezinski said that Russian leaders were afraid to admit the real reasons for their threats in Berlin. He expected that the Soviet troops would move out eventually and said that the United States need not be pessimistic about the situation...
...answer to a question, Thompson was forced to admit that his petition to abolish the game and his Strategy Committee were indeed flctitious. Sweating but still emphatic after a two-hour dedate, he told the CRIMSON, "This is the end. I just wanted to start the controversy and point out the over-emphasized sanctity of the game at Brown. Someone else may carry the ball." Upon congratulating his opponent, Thompson was told by Mackessey, "Carry on, Wade...
...other hand, Wessell continued, "a college should admit the best students who apply. It is bad to apply artificial geographical distribution...