Word: elliott
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Shuffling through the stacks of objective and subjective evaluations, Committee members make a weary but dedicated effort to distinguish rubies in the rough from well-polished glass. "There is no formula," stresses acting Director Farrington. "The ideal Radcliffe girl is really many people," adds Dean Elliott. Academic promise, intellectual curiosity, individual motivation, and social maturity--these are the four qualities The Radcliffe Girl must demonstrate. But how she does so is strictly up to her. The Committee on Admissions has few, if any, suggestions beyond the obvious or the vague...
Extra-curricular activities have only a secondary effect on an applicant's chances. Dean Elliott finds them significant only insofar as they indicate social awareness and "liveliness of mind." Miss Ballou reported in 1957 that, "Nearly half the freshman class have been editors of yearbooks and newspapers. Many have been presidents of class or student government." But, she hastened to add, "Important and valuable as these expy to have, as we do in the incoming freshman class, a girl who has raised sheep, another who picked berries to earn money for college, several who worked in laboratories, one who organized...
...composer does not feel comfortable in any single camp, he needs great skill and daring to assimilate several influences without eclecticism--while forging his own style. Elliott Carter, one of the few American composers to reach eminence since the war, has done just that. While any musicologist can find traces of, say, Bartok or Stravinsky somewhere in his music, both are completely integrated into a distinct personal style. A performance of his new Second String Quartet, which won the Pulitzer music prize in 1960, reconfirms this opinion...
...ELLIOTT J. LEVI...
...Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, yesterday joined the ranks of Masters who favor a smaller class of '65, but declared that "the Administration will probably not pay attention to my views. I've been expressing them on and off for five years...