Word: considerably
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The injustice to the applicant under the system, as the schools see it, is that a man who is not accepted at the college of his first choice will not be accepted by the colleges of his second and third choice. There are exceptions--about 10 second choices were admitted...
* "To the President of the United States in 1956," Roosevelt wrote on Dec. 17, 1941: "I am writing this letter as an act of faith in the destiny of our country. ... My request is that you consider the merits of [this] young American of goodly heritage ... for appointment as a...
A trend toward Radcliffe support of N.S.A. was indicated last night when Gladys Susman '48 completed tabulation of votes cast at Agassiz House Monday and yesterday by 258 students classified as commuters. Of the 258 ballots, only 11 opposed 'Cliffe affiliation with N.S.A. The vote represented approximately 78 percent of...
Critics have been railing at the Metropolitan Opera for ages countless for not putting on worthwhile modern works, but in their attacks they have failed to consider a potent question: is the Met fit to present any opera except the 19th century warhorses on which it concentrates? To this operagoer...
No Compromise. What accomplishment can these experimentalists show? Spearhead writers are generally distinguished by devotion to what they consider standards of great art. In love with words, scorning the cheap and obvious, aiming for goals that often seem peculiar and are always unpopular, they have resigned themselves to a precarious...