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Evans is the first member of the Committee on Admissions and Scholarship Aid to publicly attribute the applicant drop to recruiting failures. L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, said last spring that the lower number of blacks applying constituted "a signal to us that we've got to get out and work...
...deans said that 52 per cent of the blacks at Harvard have grades in Group III or above, while Kilson placed the figure at 48 per cent. Kilson said yesterday that he used the percentage for the 1971-72 academic year while Jewett and Arthurs used the 1972-73 figure...
...much Kilson's factual information that I object to," Jewett said yesterday, "as his interpretations and conclusions, though I don't know where he got some of his figures. I though some of his statements about the percentage of middle class blacks were...
...Jewett and Arthurs also cited the median verbal SAT score of entering black students at Harvard this year--605--as proof that black students here are "extraordinarily talented." However, Kilson replied that the SAT median for whites is "eighty to 100-plus points higher...
Kilson called Jewett and Arthurs "compulsively patronizing to blacks," and he added, "God save us from our so-called white friends...