Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gardner has been chary about committing his talents to a single position. Instead, he has accepted jobs as a consultant to the Carnegie Corporation (of which he was president before becoming HEW Secretary in 1965), as a director of Time Inc., and as chairman of the national Urban Coalition, an amalgam of civic leaders dedicated to combating the ills of the cities. Last week the onetime college psychology instructor took on a university assignment as well. Starting next fall, he will be a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, commuting from Washington to Cambridge to consult with faculty...
...considerations of grades and tests in choosing students who show unusual initiative. Harvard, for example, rejected one applicant who ranked third in his high school class while accepting a classmate who ranked 15th and did not fare as well on his College Board exams. The youth chosen, explains Admissions Director David Smith, displays "personal strength and determination." Wesleyan similarly passed up a top student and star athlete from a suburban Boston high school to pick instead a lower-ranking classmate who, predicts Admissions Director Robert Kirkpatrick, "will work like hell to get through...
...Yale's class of '72 were 6,800 applicants, all but 300 of whom easily met the university's academic standards. Princeton officials approved 100 applications a day at the start of its decision-making period this year; it took one whole week of what Admissions Director John T. Osander called "whimsy and brutality" to fill the last 89 positions. Obviously forced to look beyond grades, many universities look well beyond. Yale actually took the initiative in seeking out Dan Shute, a bright high school senior who spends most of his free time working on his family...
...time the hearing began, Linda found herself far too busy to attend classes, and had become something of a campus celebrity. Conducting her own crossexamination, she pressed Housing Director Elizabeth Meyers into conceding that if the LeClair family lived within the 50-mile commuting limit, the college would have had nothing to say about her housing arrangements. Linda also took issue with the college's right to act in a parental role. She received impressive support from a Barnard philosophy professor and two Columbia religious counselors. Arguing that Barnard's housing rules should be changed, Rabbi A. Bruce...
Died. Sir Myles Wyatt, 64, British aviation magnate, who built a small aeronautical company into British United Airways, Europe's biggest privately owned airline; in Colchester, England. In 1934, Wyatt joined Airwork Ltd., an aviation-equipment supplier, became managing director in 1938, in the postwar years snapped up smaller independent airlines to form BUA, and in 1961 created Air Holdings Ltd., a financial umbrella for the group, which recently agreed to purchase 50 Lockheed airbuses for $750 million, intending to use or resell the planes overseas...