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...limit admission to the most academically proficient will be the easy way to dispose of the growing burden of applications, but the Committee on Admissions should attempt, as much as possible, to continue its policy of seeking a diverse college body. To do so will require an increasingly larger admissions staff, but the money expended will be worthwhile if Harvard avoids a mechanistic, mathematical selection of admissions candidates...
...love with the bridge. He builds it better than the Japanese could have done without him, as a symbol of what can be accomplished by British “soldiers, not slaves.” So infatuated is he with his wooden love-child that he nearly frustrates an attempt by Allied commandoes to blow...
...that it assigns people to write reports for it. Some of these have been well planned and written, and though not based on scientific polls, have had merit. Too often, however, the reports turn into the opinions of the three or four men who are writing them, and little attempt is made to divine general undergraduate opinion. Reports could be much better executed under a special student committee chosen by the Masters and Senior Tutors. This committee would include at least one person who has taken a survey methods course, and at the request of the Administration...
...France, President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced a pedagogical emphasis on the Holocaust to his country’s classrooms. But while this attempt to address and correct one of history’s great crimes demonstrated laudable self-awareness, it also had the character of a stunt: Where was the mention of France’s more recent oversteps in colonial Algeria? Perhaps education design should be left to the educators, and not the politicians. It is, of course, difficult to ask or impel any major power to come to grips with its past errors, but the nearer states draw...
...United States government is clearly under some pressure to take some actions in an attempt to stabilize the economy, and as a consequence, recently announced a $153 billion (more or less) stimulus package that is supposed to rejuvenate the economy and stabilize the market (H.R. 5140— the Economic Stimulus...