Word: admitting
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Mary Switzer said in an interview after her address to the American College Health Association, "I'm quite sure that Ivy League colleges admit a smaller percentage of handicapped students than other colleges. They are not taking the lead in this area as I think they should...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of UHS, spoke next and departed from his prepared statement for a moment to admit that the "needle that she [Miss Switzer] aimed in our direction was deserved and accurate...
Although he believed there is "not enough admissions information to go on," Dr. Farnsworth conceded the possibility that Ivy League schools admit a smaller percentage of handicapped students than other schools. "If it is so, it is because of our selectivity," explained Dr. Farnsworth, who reads a number of admissions folders every year. "If you have a choice between two equally excellent students [and one is disabled], you naturally take the healthier...
There are some questions both plans raised which have not yet been resolved, in particular whether instructors could refuse to admit pass-fail students to their courses. The administration has insisted on that option since some courses are already oversubscribed with graded students...
...rest, it is that--as a Harvard student and a writer for the CRIMSON--I cannot use the word "establishment" without stepping on my own foot. In the broadest sense (not the sense in which I used the word), there is more truth in this than I care to admit. So I stand convicted of self-deception. What possible bearing this has on the article in question is beyond...