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...JANUARY, 1970, Bowdoin College announced that it no longer required Scholastic Aptitude Test and Achievement Test scores from applicants for admission. The decision was widely understood to be one college's reaction against the dangerously heavy emphasis placed upon standardized tests in admissions offices throughout the country and few other colleges saw fit to follow suit. In the subsequent floor of correspondence from students, parents, teachers and administrators who had heard the news, Richard Moll, then director of Bowdoin admissions, received a note from an admissions colleague in New York: "Bowdoin will never amount to anything anyway, because your...
...Bowdoin's unprecedented break with the great American tradition of standardized testing has turned out to be a freak. Elsewhere in the country, nothing much changed; and down in Princeton, N.J., Educational Testing Service (ETS) was expanding its operations into a host of new fields. Apart from some 1.5 million pre- and elementary school children just entering the mill, 20,000 teenagers applying to exclusive private schools, 1.8 million high school students heading for college, 300,000 applicants to graduate schools, 74,000 considering business careers, and 120,000 hoping to be lawyers--all of whom will have to sharpen...
...headmaster at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Me., in the early '60s, Gauld (who has degrees from Bowdoin College and Boston University) grew discouraged with what he saw as the "coddling" of students, and an overemphasis on grades. With $100,000 borrowed from family and friends, Gauld bought an old mansion on the Maine coast and set up a school devoted to developing self-confidence and selfdiscipline. Novel and untested, Hyde could not hope to attract outstanding students; thus Gauld started by accepting teen-agers with a history of mental illness or drug problems. The student body now includes...
Results Mass MaritimeW 19-4 C.W. Post W 13-7 Adelphi W 11-9 Hofstra L 7-11 Bowdoin W 11-7 Pennsylvania L 11-19 Boston College W 14-8 Cornell L 7-21 Yale W 14-6 M.I.T. W 27-0 Princeton W 11-10 Brown L 10-14 UMass L 7-18 Williams W 19-8 Dartmouth...
Patterson said one of the Bowdoin attackers made an incredible shot, scoring from a position parallel to the goal line...