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...Deans Office used two criteria in turning down the New Student's application for recognition. Generally, the idea was that since the writing and circulation were preponderantly non-Harvard, there could be no valid argument that the magazine should be thought of as a Harvard enterprise. Though denying that more percentage figures could be the determinant, the Administration pretty clearly based their public case on figures and figures alone. In so doing, they left out a crucial function in magazine work: editing. A brief soon to be filed with the Council by the New Student's editors proves quite conclusively...
...first review the arguments of those who operate, use, or condone the use of the tutoring school. The thought is that if Harvard College sets up certain criteria of what is to be learned, namely examinations, and does not dogmatically prescribe how these things are to be learned, there is nothing immoral about utilizing the easiest method of learning them. They can point out, and rightly, that getting an education is not the same thing as playing a football game--the purpose is not primarily competitive and therefore "rules of the game" are slightly ridiculous. Education is supposed...
...sheer weight of words and incidents and research were the only criteria, "Raintree Country" would be the Great American Novel that Mr. Lockridge so obviously intends it to be. Or if complexity of structure and multiplicity of symbolism were the means of indexing and ranking novels, it would stand close to the top. But something else, unfortunately, is needed...
...added inquiry into student knowledge will have to be correlated before members of the Law School faculty will know exactly towards what end to use it or how to weight its findings. Law School officials could not announce what weight it would be given in this year's entrance criteria...
...starting gate of the process lies the Committee on Admissions, which every spring filters out three-fourths of its applicants, leaving an accepted residue of its own composition. Since the advent of Chairman Richard M. Gummere in 1934 the criteria used in the filtering have moved slowly but surely in the direction of President Conant's "democratization." The College Board has eliminated the specialized examinations which were the joy of carefully prepared prep-schoolers; scholarships, including Mr. Conant's new National variety, have mounted; geographical distribution has been emphasized...