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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class of 1961, for example, the number of students planning to major in the Natural Sciences decreased from 47 to 34 per cent of the class between the time of admission and the end of the Freshman year, a recent survey showed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CEP Subcommittee Plans to Study Causes for Drop-Outs From Sciences | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

Honors records also favor Radcliffe claims. For the class of '58, Radcliffe-variety, 53 per cent won honors. Only 41.8 per cent of their Harvard counterparts received honors degrees...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

...other hand, Harvard's admissions record is not a subject for shame. The largest number of secondary school applicants on record applied to Harvard last Fall; over 60 per cent were rejected. And the students admitted are by no means scholastic slouches. On Scholastic Aptitude Tests, members of the class of '56 scored from 474 to 674; for the class of '62, scores ranged from...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

...overwhelming number of Harvard men majoring in Social Relations go to Medical School, and learn the specific tools used in Soc Rel, such as psychoanalytic method, for a professional career. Proportionally, over 50 per cent of Radcliffe graduates doing additional work enter the GSAS. However, the overwhelming majority of Harvard students continuing in graduate studies enter professional schools, such as Law or Medicine...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

...perhaps a final vindication is the fact that Cliffies will not, by and large, earn their living on the basis of their educational experience. Few Radcliffe graduates enter professional life, while their husbands-seventy per cent of whom are Harvard graduates-must earn a living for at least two. Radcliffe brains may grace a home; Harvard brains must...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

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