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McInally says that the rating scale is not "chauvinistic," but is based purely on physical criteria...
...management company will attempt to establish the procedures and criteria to which it will adhere in handling Harvard's investments. Last week, Cabot held the first formal meetings for a review of past and future economic policy. Meetings for an investment strategy review are scheduled for this week. It is not yet clear to what extent questions of corporate and social responsibility will influence the new investments the company will make or its decisions to maintain or divest Harvard's existing shareholdings. But these considerations will no doubt be at least a part of the policy discussions...
Second, he cited the widespread worry that letters of recommendation may cease to be candid, thus losing their crucial role in college and graduate and professional school admissions and forcing schools to rely more heavily on objective criteria...
...Best is, at bottom-which is just three-quarters of an inch from the top-a shallow smattering of opinion and data based on a surfeit of snobbism and a poverty of research. The professors treat their audience like a class of life's freshmen. They offer no criteria, arbitrarily choosing the Best Book of the Bible (Job), the World's Best Restaurant (France's Pyramide), the Best College at Oxford (Magdalen), the Best Flavor of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream (Mandarin Chocolate). Such judgments are ideal for those who would rather sample the wine label than...
...list reflects almost totally the shades of liberal-left opinion from conservative to radical. It also reflects a certain confusion in the criteria. Listed in the first group of eleven, for example, is Robert Silvers, the editor of the New York Review of Books, the magazine that the study indicates is favored by intellectuals who want to reach other intellectuals. Silvers is an able editor but an infrequent writer; it must be assumed that his ranking at the top, along with Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling and Norman Mailer,* is due to a power not unlike that of the maitre...