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Meanwhile, appearing before a House subcommittee investigating the Estes case, Roland Ballou, an Agriculture Department official, was asked if he had ever met Estes. His answer: "I have not. Thank the Lord." Ballou's fervent reply was understandable, as the hearings turned up more strange twists in the serpentine scandal. Items...
...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...
Extra-curricular activities have only a secondary effect on an applicant's chances. Dean Elliott finds them significant only insofar as they indicate social awareness and "liveliness of mind." Miss Ballou reported in 1957 that, "Nearly half the freshman class have been editors of yearbooks and newspapers. Many have been presidents of class or student government." But, she hastened to add, "Important and valuable as these expy to have, as we do in the incoming freshman class, a girl who has raised sheep, another who picked berries to earn money for college, several who worked in laboratories, one who organized...
...question of emotional stability, Miss Ballou outlined Radcliffe's attitude: "We do not want, nor could we cope with, a community of psychiatric risks. Brilliance, if irresponsible, does not guarantee admission. On the other hand, there are those in this year's class of whom it may be said, as one teacher of a girl, 'She flies off the handle easily, but is learning to master this failing and of late shows marked improvement in handling her own emotions.'" Mrs. Farrington puts it more bluntly. "Of course we want well-balanced people. But some of the most able...
...college's raison d'etre from the beginning has been to provide a Harvard education for women. Its greatest drawing card--even during the forties when the insular women's college flourished--has been the combined attraction of the Harvard facilities, Faculty, and student body. Although Miss Ballou occasionally expressed doubts about the kind of girl who prefers co-education, most members of the Committee on Admissions have accepted the inevitable truth that the girls want to be where the boys...