Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inadmissable, sends it to the next scheduled reader. When the folder has gone through three readings (only two if the applicant is particularly strong in every way), and has been assigned a PRL (Predicted Rank List), it is stored in a "coffin" to await being listed on a geographical docket and considered by the whole Admissions Committee...
...Faculty Committee on Admission includes about 22 members, well distributed among the departments and administrative offices. There are a few "specialists" who have been on the Committee for several successive years and always a few new ones. At these meetings, each area man from the staff introduces the docket from each of his regions and is the primary consultant on difficult or controversial decisions. Cases have often been very hotly debated before the committee was able to reach a decision. This sometimes occurs when an area man has been particularly impressed by a candidate from somewhere in "the boondocks." While...
Massachusetts will have its last opportunity--for a while anyway--to pass judgment on this eighteenth century novel when its Supreme Judicial Court opens the January, 1965 term this week. On the docket will be the appeal of G. P. Putnam's Sons, publisher of the contested edition, in Edward W. Brooke (Attorney General) v. A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (Commonly Known as Fanny Hill). Justice Donald M. Macaulay of the Massachusetts Superior Court finally ruled on Sept. 22 that "this book is utterly without redeeming social importance in the fields...
When the American Medical Association held its semiannual meeting in Miami Beach last week, high on the docket was the election of a president to take office next June. Not surprisingly, the delegates chose a small-town general practitioner, a man who projects just the sort of image that the A.M.A. prefers: Dr. James Ziegler Appel, 57, of Lancaster...
...Doty Report will not come up for discussion until a half hour or 45 minutes from the end of today's meeting. It is the last item on what otherwise appears to be a routine docket...