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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect, this means that college board scores do not give an accurate appraisal of the calibre of the average Radcliffe student. High school seniors scoring in the high 700's on College Entrance Board Examinations might not be admitted, while a student scoring considerably lower might...
Despite the non-mathematical criteria, however, a recent article in Harper's Magazine by Martin Mayer, which referred consistently to the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board, revealed one statistic that seems to give the 'Cliffes an academic edge over their Harvard colleagues: Radcliffe is the second most "selective" college in the country. The only college outranking it is not Harvard, but Caltech...
Harvard Yearbook Publications recently elected Reverdy Johnson '60, of Leverett House and Westfield, New Jersey, president for 1959-60. Also chosen for next year's board of Directors were Steven M. David '61, of Dunster House and Washington, D.C., Business Manager, and H. Claude Shostal '61, of Adams House and Peekskill, New York, Production Manager...
...British courage and skill reminiscent of the blitz. More than 200 potholers poured in from nearby towns. A clerk who had been refused time off to help in the rescue quit his job. An R.A.F. mountain rescue unit arrived, followed by crack rescue groups from the National Coal Board and the submarine base at Gosport. Hospitals sent cylinders of oxygen. The rescue workers struggled through the mud and darkness, slithered into waist-high pools. Fifty volunteers were spaced out at intervals in the tunnel to make a hand chain for passing on ropes, food, lamps, oxygen cylinders...
During a distinguished career, he served as secretary to President Eliot from 1901 to 1905, Secretary to the Corporation under President Eliot and Lowell from 1905 to 1910 and under President Conant from 1934 to 1943. He was elected three times to the Board of Overseers. Greene, who founded the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and the University Gazette, was also prominent in national public service, and took part in the founding of several important social and philanthropic institutions...