Word: biased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, the review suggests that any bias on the part of the judges against large Romantic concertors calls into question the validity of the whole competition. I am sure there is such a bias; but it is certainly not because these concertos are "too difficult for the HRO." It is simply a reflection of a bias in the Harvard community; and the judges must decide on the basis of both musical values and box office attractiveness. Prospective contestants must simply be aware of this bias...
Fair Yardstick. The charge of bias on the S.A.T.s is an old one. Since they were instituted in 1926, educators have variously accused E.T.S. of loading them against girls, rural youths, and most of the country outside the Northeast; the Testing Service, in fact, spends about $500,000 a year on research to improve the exams. Although Negro students do less well on the S.A.T.s, College Board Official W. H. Manning argues that this merely "reveals the extent to which the disadvantaged person is cheated in his education." Any cultural bias in the exams, the testers add, reflects the fact...
Adams's rendering of Stravinsky's Danses Concertantes was his most successful effort of the evening. The neo-classic work struck a balance between the eighteenth Vs.twentieth-century polarity of the program, as well as between Adams's academic training and his modernistic bias. For Adams it was just the right combination of lyricism and efficiency...
...getting more conversation about the problems of life," says the Rev. Frederick Collins, Catholic chaplain at Harvard. Adds Monsignor Joseph Alves of Boston: "I find that people are more concerned about justice and charity than they ever were before. Their concentration is on recognizing the serious sins of racial bias and paying money for political jobs." Priests who work with college students report that boys are less worried about "how far" they went on dates, more interested in seeking advice on how to build a genuine relationship with girl friends...
...classification. A quick check of the Widener card catalogue illustrates these inconsistencies. Of Widener's 39 books on homosexuality, for example, 30 are kept in the XR cage and nine in the stacks. On the other hand, only 11 of 79 books on prostitution are classified XR. The bias is clearly heterosexual...