Word: fillings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guarantee. Doubts about the S.A.T.s are shared by many university admissions officers. Yale's Admissions Dean R. Inslee Clark Jr. is not impressed by "multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank tests" as indices of a student's capability. The test scores, agrees Amherst Admissions Dean Eugene Wilson, "do not guarantee the presence of those human qualities and intellectual abilities we value most." Yale's Clark, as well as many Negro educators, feels that the tests' subtle orientation toward white middle-class values loads them against Negroes and other culturally deprived youths...
...first exhibition fills two rooms with works by the eccentric Japanese painter Soga Shohaku (1730-1781). A fiercely independent man, Shohaku was considered a fanatic by his contemporaries. Trying to revive the no longer fashionable 15th century monochrome tradition, he preceded 20th century action painters. His brush-work, like de Kooning's' is vigorous and sweeping but controlled. His huge dragons and drinking sages fill enormous floor to ceiling panels and scrolls...
...first is known in the Pentagon as "age-mix." Under this system, everyone in the pool is considered to be born in the same year and the oldest ones are drafted first. This would mean that men born in the first third of the year (January through April) would fill the entire year's draft call. Other "19-year-olds" would probably remain untouched. And there are an infinite number of gimmicks and variations to this plan. Draft boards could be told to work by the fiscal year which begins on July 1. Men born in July through October would...
...Romance Language Department established a similar set-up this week for its concentrators. Three full courses required of all concentrators will have to be taken graded. But students can fill out the rest of their requirements in the field with as many pass-fail courses as they wish...
...education. Companies would have to organize large-scale training programs, which many firms have already done. Boston and its suburbs would have to build direct transportation from the central city to Route 128, where many of the expanding industries are located. But this public transportation is necessary anyway to fill the skilled worker demand in the 128 firms...