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Given those criteria, here are an arbitrary five choices for Ford, in approximate order of probability...
While the admissions officials say they rarely make clerical errors, they make no bones about admitting they may make mistakes in their decisions. It's a subjective process that works without any formal criteria, making decisions by the majority vote of a committee composed of administrators and faculty. The process of evaluation of an applicant, however, has been thoroughly systemized and computerized over the last few years...
...editors characteristically omit the criteria for judging Quality. But then, there are no W editors as such. The newspaper is put out by the same editors and staff as WWD, and virtually every word and photo that appears in W is lifted from or destined for the daily. Thus the pages of W are filled with the same movie previews, fashion spreads, profiles, food and home-decorating articles, and Beautiful People (BP, of course) as its diurnal sister-if somewhat fewer of them-and all written in similarly breathless prose (Jacqueline Onassis is "mystique mingled with mystery-maybe even sorcery...
Harvard has barely begun to feel the economic pinch that reached crisis proportions this year at Brown. The recession has a long way to go before Harvard will have to reduce its faculty by 15 per cent, and if administrators are considering making financial aid a criteria for admissions, they have not said so. But if Harvard students can learn anything from what is happening at Brown, it is that when the crunch comes. President Bok will not announce it at a Lowell House dinner. It took two massive student rallies and a month of negotiations at Brown to bring...
...institutions such as Harvard because of the nature of their intellectual endeavor. Scholarly innovativeness, he writes, engenders certain values which lead in a natural way to political concerns. These values include skepticism about existing knowledge and a universalism that treats all things connected with scholarly pursuit according to impersonal criteria. The academic's skepticism brings him into conflict with the reigning powers in society while his universalism leads the scholar to oppose "those aspects of stratified societies that limit equality of opportunity." Despite the obvious conflicts between scholars and the powers that be in society, free thought in academic settings...