Word: givens
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Smith also said that the Admissions Office has given fewer ratings--advance estimates of chances for admission--to prep school students this year because of a change in Harvard's rating system. "We now ask that a student submit his full folder before we will give him a rating," he said. Previously, applicants from certain schools could obtain ratings be-before applying by submitting their transcripts and recommendations...
...only to come roaring back to tie the score at 4-4. With the meet on the line the NYU swordsmen attacked hard, scoring what seemed to be the decisive touch. But the judge ruled that he had been outside the strip when he scored, and Irvings was given new life. Responding to the challenge the spunky sophomore parried another attack and scored the decisive touch on a brilliant repost...
...social engineering made Planning 11-3b objectionably narrow in conception as well as frighteningly numb to its racist overtones, and it is fortunate that Bruening acknowledged the mistakes and cancelled the seminar. Had he chosen not to yield to his critics though, the course should have been given--not cancelled by force as the Afro demonstrators promised Friday it would be. One bad course would do far less damage than the precedent that a course's point of view opens it to suppression by those in the community who find that point of view objectionable...
...MORE topics given wide discussion last year was how to provide more opportunity for students to have an appropriate role in decision making. Today's students are in the main a highly serious a lot who have been increasingly eager in recent years to be treated not as inferiors but as younger colleagues working in a common enterprise. In many instances, particularly in the more advanced programs of the graduate-professional schools, there can be no doubt they...
Moriarty said that without a professorship, NROTC could not remain at Harvard without violating a Federal law which states that no ROTC unit may be maintained at an institution unless "the senior commissioned officer of the armed force concerned, who is assigned to the program at that institution, is given the academic rank of professor...