Word: caltech
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...easier bet for him to make, since his room and board aren’t riding on it.) Golden claims that colleges could abolish legacy preference without taking a huge fundraising hit. He notes that “three prestigious private colleges”—Caltech, Cooper Union in New York City, and Berea College in Kentucky—“flourish without preferences for…alumni children...
...Just as Copernicus disproved the medieval notion that the sun revolves around the earth, Caltech disproves the modern dogma that the survival of private education revolves around admissions breaks for the rich,” Golden writes...
...short of a “proof.” Caltech’s emphasis on science research means that its faculty members can rely on federal agencies and other grant-givers for funding—a luxury that many Harvard humanities professors don’t enjoy. Whereas Caltech derives more than 40 percent of its revenue from research grants and contracts, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences derives just 17 percent of its income from those sources. In other words, Harvard must be more reliant on private donations—and, specifically, on alums...
...Sleuth,” Charbonneau’s telescope, was constructed with four-inch lenses. The discovery shows that “great science can still be performed using inexpensive equipment,” according to Francis T. O’Donovan, a fifth-year graduate student at Caltech who led the effort that found TrES-2. O’Donovan corresponded via e-mail from Palomar, Calif., where he is repairing “Sleuth.” “The equipment is simple, but not the science,” O’Donovan wrote. Found...
Your report was well intended, butby making the Ivy League schools your focus, you perpetuated the idea of these schools as the nation's lite, most desirable campuses. Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. have their counterparts on the left coast in the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford; and Caltech. These campuses are certainly not inferior to the Ivy League campuses, and one of them is a public institution. D. BLAIR GIBSON UCLA, B.A. '78, PH.D. '90 EL CAMINO COLLEGE Torrance, Calif...