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...increasing number of applicants for admission will make it easier for the College to choose a larger number of freshmen from those applicants with a predicted rank list of Group I or II. Indeed, even now there is much support for choosing the incoming class from those candidates with the highest predicted Rank List. This feeling is most prevalent among the younger faculty members, products of the modern Ph.D. factories, and among some members of the science departments...
...limit admission to the most academically proficient will be the easy way to dispose of the growing burden of applications, but the Committee on Admissions should attempt, as much as possible, to continue its policy of seeking a diverse college body. To do so will require an increasingly larger admissions staff, but the money expended will be worthwhile if Harvard avoids a mechanistic, mathematical selection of admissions candidates...
...five in many departments. Student demand is only one factor determining how faculty slots are allocated, however. As the late FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles put it, one can imagine a university without philosophy majors, but not without a philosophy department. Class sizes will inevitably be greater in the larger concentrations...
...development of a comprehensive plan to curb youth violence in the state. Besides the potential tangible effect of lowering rates of youth violence, the most encouraging aspect of this dialogue was the students’ embracing a cause that does not directly affect them. By thus engaging with the larger community outside of Harvard , the BSA served as a model student-interest organization with a political...
...Moss' sermon on early Sunday seemed to suggest the church was trying hard to focus hard on its business and away from the controversy of the past several months. Several members seemed to agree. "The congregation isn't caught up in that larger debate - it's a distraction," says Hopkins, the University of Chicago professor. "We've still got to teach Bible class. None of this is going to impact the work of our ministries, or the scholarships we give to black colleges...