Word: ballou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the Committee was ever again to be so frank about the seemingly insurmountable problems its faces. Constance Ballou, Director of Admissions during the crucial years from 1954 through 1959, tried to clarify Radcliffe's standards without constructing specific patterns of required performance or potential. She stressed the importance of a strong academic background, cautioning applicants to take "life-adjustment" courses only in addition to, not in place of, scholastic course...
...least have come increasingly to distrust the beautifully precise examination scores--drawn out to a thousandth of a per cent--which I think do violence to the complexity of knowledge and the mystery of character," wrote President Jordan in 1943. Miss Ballou, if she did not wholly share his skepticism, put it partially into practice. On the College Boards, she emphasized, "We do not expect the same performance from all candidates ... we 'think down' the scores of those girls whose schools have primed them for this variety of test-taking. Conversely, we 'think up' the results achieved by girls...
...Harbor and a side view of Star of the West, the side-wheel steamship that was standing up the Charleston channel on Jan. 9, 1861 when it became the first target of the Civil War. A story on page 2 lists the principal Southern forts; on the back cover, Ballou Brothers, a New York concern, offers French yoke shirts at $12 a dozen. Nothing in the magazine could be considered timely, but last week 1,600 subscribers studied it as avidly as their morning papers. What they were reading was a faithful reproduction of Harper's Weekly, a 19th...