Word: goslin
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Paul Padlak (167) and Howie Freedman (191) recorded Harvard's only two victories. Padlak outclassed Bob Goslin, 9-1, for his second straight overwhelming decision, and Freedman nipped Dave Pottruck, 4-3, for his second straight decision...
...this merely "reveals the extent to which the disadvantaged person is cheated in his education." Any cultural bias in the exams, the testers add, reflects the fact that college instruction and grading are also biased in favor of students with a middleclass style of verbal ability. Sociologist David A. Goslin of the Russell Sage Foundation argues that reliance on vocabulary skills should not be considered an evil in itself. "If facility with the English language is necessary for success in our society," he says, "then a test of verbal ability in English is not an unfair yardstick...