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...brighter side, the rapidly improving duo of Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge makes the Crimson solid favorites for big points in the dash, while Cohen figures to take the hurdles, with the hard-working Landau also picking up points...
...Brighter & Brighter. By piling up the total number of applications, the ghosts tend to distort the demand for higher education. But the demand is nevertheless there-and it has already begun to change the whole sociology of U.S. higher education. With more and more students to choose from, the big-name campuses are becoming more and more selective. At Harvard the number of students on the dean's list has gone up from 27% before World War II to nearly 40%. Indeed, says Amherst Dean of Freshmen Eugene...
...still have a slight advantage, even top private Eastern prep schools can no longer guarantee him a place in the college of his choice. Says Headmaster Hall: "It's kind of hard on the Yale alumnus who develops a kid as bright as his father but no brighter...
Some profit pictures were much brighter. Oil-industry earnings were pushed up by heavy demand arising from the Suez crisis. Sinclair's net shot up 13% to a record $91 million in 1956. Socony Mobil estimated earnings at $250 million, up from $208 million in 1955. Shell Oil hit $135.8 million, for an advance of $10.3 million...
...report, Pusey cited the fact that each year the percentage of students on the Dean's List has grown with 40 per cent of all undergraduates achieving this rank. He emphasized "This is not to say that there are brighter or abler students in college now than there were five year ago. The relevant point is that the proportion of exceptionally intelligent in each class is greater than ever before in Harvard's history." Taking this into view, Pusey added, "It would be a serious error for the Faculty now to devote its energy to preserving an earlier standard which...