Word: essayed
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...Board, an organization of more than 2500 colleges, schools, school systems and education associations' first gave the Scholastic Aptitude (SAT) in 1926. Previously, the Board, which was established in 1900 to standardize the admissions examinations given by Harvard, Princeton, Yale and a few other selective colleges, administered a written essay examinations. The SAT and the essays coexisted until World War II, when the Board indefinitely discontinued the latter. Educational Testing Service (ETS) officials will account and admit, to their chagrin, the stories related to the first IQ tests, which were designed for the purpose of ethnic exclusion...
Congratulations for the Essay "Back to Reticence" [Feb. 4]! It admirably depicts my feelings since my arrival in this country. I recently had the dubious privilege at one of the Yale dining halls of sitting next to a law student who ate with his hat on and used a chicken bone as a toothpick. In many countries, such behavior would automatically render a person ineligible for any qualified position. How can you bear...
...pinpoint Lance Morrow's age, but his Essay does seem to be a case of one generation speaking to another. I am a product of the "new lingo" generation, and I admit I often find myself flinching inside while maintaining a deadpan expression. However, what really catches me off guard is when someone older than I tosses around what are considered vulgar words and expressions in my presence. I have been running into this in job interviews recently...
...most part, they are as diligent and in some ways more driven now than earlier." One cause of the high fail rate is a 1976 decision to alter the grading. Before, any student who answered 140 of the multiple-choice questions correctly passed automatically, no matter how bad his essays were; in 1976 the trigger figure for passing became 145. (In Pennsylvania, by contrast, the pass number is 135.) Then, last July, something strange happened in the essay portion: of the 60% who scored below 145 on the multiple-choice section, only 10% did well enough on the essays...
Some Soviet dissidents still argue that their country's Marxist-Leninist system can be reformed from within. Not Alexander Solzhenitsyn: he has never swerved from his belief in the inherent evil of Communism. Last week, the Nobel-prizewinning novelist composed this essay for TIME in response to the crisis in East-West relations created by the Soviet conquest of Afghanistan. Solzhenitsyn argues that Afghanistan is merely the latest demonstration of the U.S.S.R.s insatiable desire for world conquest. As in his grim 1978 Harvard commencement address, he chides the West for weakness. But the West may yet prevail, he says...