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...must compensate for their academic weaknesses by attempting to gain recognition through politics. Although this may be a somewhat facile judgment, it bears consideration in the light of the growing academization of Harvard, the continued admission of students who are below or at least work below the Harvard academic median, and the increasing number of voluntary drop-outs...
Besides increasing in size, the present group of applicants has shown a corresponding gain in mental prowess. The median score of candidates on the mathematical part of the Scholastic Aptitude Test was 655--a gain of 20 points over the record high of the Class of '62. The median on the verbal section rose from...
...when Radcliffe students were not allowed in the Yard, and not too long ago Cliffe still had its own faculty, but times have definitely changed. After years of offering its students only the disadvantages of co-education, Harvard has begun to coat the bitter pill of Cliffe median-raisers. Cliffe monopolizers-of-Widener, Cliffe knitters-in-Emerson D. First joint tutorial, then combined organizations and activities, and now the eagerly anticipated announcement that Winthrop House and Comstock Hall have merged. Let's ring the bells and start the celebration...
...Results Speak." The infusion of underprivileged Negroes into the all-white school system has brought down the scholastic level (to what the two systems would have been before if averaged together). The national ninth-grade median IQ is 101.5-Washington's is now 94. But while Negroes generally score lower than whites, there has also been consistent progress since integration. Most Negro children, notably the youngest, are advancing each year at the pace regarded as normal for whites. More and more Negroes are also breaking through into the honors classes of many high schools...
...increasing ability of applicants is "making it even harder to get into the College," King said. This year, their median College Board Tests score was over 600, as against 595 last year, he reported...