Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depart from considerations of grades and tests in choosing students who show unusual initiative. Harvard, for example, rejected one applicant who ranked third in his high school class while accepting a classmate who ranked 15th and did not fare as well on his College Board exams. The youth chosen, explains Admissions Director David Smith, displays "personal strength and determination." Wesleyan similarly passed up a top student and star athlete from a suburban Boston high school to pick instead a lower-ranking classmate who, predicts Admissions Director Robert Kirkpatrick, "will work like hell to get through...
TRAYNHAM seems to have chosen a middle course for his civil rights activities. Rather than ignore the white community, he would enlist its sympathy, its money and the support of its large, wealthy corporations. Especially the corporations...
...required related course chosen from Math 1, Stat 1c, Physics 1, Nat Sci's 2, 5, 7, and 115, Ec 1, Soc Rel 10 and Phil...
...half more courses in the department, one of which can be chosen from a huge list of optional related courses...
...lecture system at Harvard gives Professors a chance to develop their ideas on some chosen topic at length and regularly over a period of time. It is far superior to the British, system, say, in which lectures are sporadic events to be made use of or not as the mood strikes one. Nevertheless, the course system at Harvard does not work very well largely because all the reading is assigned--as if it will be done simultaneously with the lectures. Another drawback is that the educational process is rounded off, in good European fashion, by a massive examination...