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...pioneering study to survey all of its 3,300 graduates between 1947 and 1952 to measure their success in life. The goal: an answer to why many did resoundingly well despite poor school records. After analyzing the qualities that drive such students, Brown hopes to use them as new criteria in admissions. Over a four-year period, 10% of each freshman class will consist of seeming risks-men not strictly academic but unusually vigorous, humorous, mature or original. As one Brown official puts it: "Thus do the Lord and Barnaby Keeney provide for the Tom Sawyers of the land...
Though it is entirely legitimate for the composer to return to the past for his inspiration--as other contemporary composers have done--he, like they, must satisfy today's criteria of what is musically interesting. Here Martin fails. The music of La Mystere de la Nativite consists of perhaps half a dozen simple motives and devices which are repeated one at a time and without significant alteration for nearly two hours. It was as if he had drained Orff's Carmina Burana of all its excitement and retained only the simple-mindedness, or took all the musical lines from Stravinsky...
...first vote of the meeting, which aroused little dissent, attacked the notion that departments might recommend or veto students for the C.L.G.S., and seemed reasonable enough: criteria for determining which seniors who abandoned their theses might be eligible would vary greatly from department to department. Essentially, decisions would be arbitrary, hence unfair. It was then that the majority argued: it is much better to unsnarl the whole administrative tangle by legislating automatic eligibility for students with the proper collection of grades. Yet the opposition was quick to point out that to lift the restriction setting the choice for C.L.G.S...
...passed a Gill plan that required departments to tutor absolutely all non-Honors students, it would undoubtedly have met the fate the Tuesday legislation is likely to meet. It passed because it allowed department discretition in determining who might be excluded from tutorial through failure to satisfy rock-bottom criteria. The method of liberalizing the cum loud degree suggested here would permit like discretion--although in this case the Faculty should add the explicit enjoinder that the departments be lenient and flexible in judging a student's plea for release from the thesis. Again, practices would doubtless be "arbitrary...
Oettinger confesses that the prospect of making decisions about human beings on the basis of numerical criteria is scarcely heartening, but points out that the University is making many such decisions already, especially in the Admissions Office. Anyway, he estimates that in the huge majority of cases the machine would place students in exactly the same House as the Masters and the present system. And he adds encouragingly that the automatic system could doubtless inform the Masters of any extraordinary or borderline cases, and so allow ordinary human judgment to assert itself again...