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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...
...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...
There had been some feeling that girls, well qualified for acceptance, would have to be refused because only a fraction of the full class could be let in in December. Miss Ballou pointed out, however, that students who were close to being accepted would receive letters encouraging them to re-apply. A second application will mean that they take College Board tests this year, she said...
Only about one-fifth of the students who will comprise the Class of '63 in the "Sister Seven" women's colleges were accepted under the new early application program, it was announced this week. Accordingly, Radcliffe doesn't anticipate any over-acceptance of students, said Miss Constance E. Ballou, director of Admissions...
...Miss Ballou termed the program successful, although she said that over-application might become a problem when the new policy becomes more widely known...