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...twelve college presidents signed a letter asking their colleagues not to participate in the peer assessment survey and not to use the rankings for promotional efforts. The letter, which has since gathered over 50 additional signatories including the presidents of Wesleyan University, Kenyon College, and Trinity College in Connecticut, called the rankings "misleading" and criticized them for implying a false precision, obscuring important differences, ignoring what students are actually learning, and encouraging wasteful spending in pursuit of improved rankings. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Nonetheless, none of the Ivy League presidents signed the letter, and according to a recently released survey by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions of over 300 college admissions officers, 97 percent of those schools that participated in the rankings last year plan to do so again...
...Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The Aug. 25 online article "Harvard Places Second in College Rankings" incorrectly stated that the president of Wesleyan University had signed a letter asking colleagues to refrain from participating in the US News and World Report higher education survey. In fact, the presidents of Wesleyan College and Ohio Wesleyan University signed the letter, but the president of Wesleyan University...
...accept the absence, it never lifted again. Five years after her Nobel, a Jesuit priest in the Calcutta province noted that "Mother came ... to speak about the excruciating night in her soul. It was not a passing phase but had gone on for years." A 1995 letter discussed her "spiritual dryness." She died...
...early on. In 1968, British writer-turned-filmmaker Malcolm Muggeridge visited Teresa. Muggeridge had been an outspoken agnostic, but by the time he arrived with a film crew in Calcutta he was in full spiritual-search mode. Beyond impressing him with her work and her holiness, she wrote a letter to him in 1970 that addressed his doubts full-bore. "Your longing for God is so deep and yet He keeps Himself away from you," she wrote. "He must be forcing Himself to do so - because he loves you so much - the personal love Christ has for you is infinite...