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...past, every members of the Committee on Admissions read each candidate's folder. Next year, however, the Committee (currently Mrs. Phillips Farrington, acting Director; and Associate Director; Deans Eliott, Williston, and Sherman; the Director of Financial Aid; and President Bunting) will divide up the applications into small groups, each to be assessed by one member. The change is designed to save time; it also suggests that the Committee wonders whether recent applications have been read with sufficient care...
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...
...other hand, there are those in this year's class of whom it may be said, as one teacher of a girl, 'She flies off the handle easily, but is learning to master this failing and of late shows marked improvement in handling her own emotions.'" Mrs. Farrington puts it more bluntly. "Of course we want well-balanced people. But some of the most able are not well-balanced. This is a chance we have to take. If we're sure a girl is going to have a break-down, it is no kindness to her or the college...
...this raises a further problem, for Radcliffe, obviously, has a vested interest in siphoning off the best of the best. It isn't as easy as it sounds. For one thing, as Mrs. Farrington points out, the very brilliance of Radcliffe's image tends to scare away some of the people the College would like to attract. Though Committee members say they no longer worry about geographical, social, and economic distribution, Radcliffe remains an essentially Eastern, upper-class College. The majority of the applicants come from the New England and middle Atlantic states; the College still fills nearly...
...vast and alluring is the potential of the optical scanner that Farrington's competitors are doubling their efforts to bring out their own scanners. IBM is testing several models, and RCA will soon field-test a pilot model to handle subscriptions at a major publishing house. Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. has its first orders for optical readers from major oil Companies. National Data Processing