Word: cullings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dartmouth's Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. said that "every admissions officer in the United States would give five years of his life" if he could use an IBM machine to cull freshmen. But no one has yet found the right punch-card formula, Chamberlain mused, a trifle sadly, in the Saturday Evening Post. "One wag predicts it is more likely we shall find a way to punch holes in the candidates and run them through the machines...
...already hit the country's 100 big-name colleges, and especially those in the East. Last week, as the annual waiting season began, Princeton reported a 20% rise in applications for next fall, "the greatest single jump we've ever had in a year." Yale will cull 1,000 freshmen from 4,800 fee-paid applications, 500 more than last year. Harvard has 5,000 final applicants, a record boost of 900 over last year. Yet freshman classes remain the same size. Harvard will actually try to cut its next class by 50 to 1,150. Says Princeton...