Word: packer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of Mr. Henry Penny-packer, headmaster of the Boston Latin School, to the chairmanship of the Committee on Admissions at Harvard is an event of more than ordinary significance in the educational world. It indicates a way in which both the colleges and the schools may ultimately solve the difficult problem of adjusting admission requirements in a manner satisfactory to both. The schools have hitherto accounted it a grievance that the administration of these requirements has invariably been controlled by men who viewed the entire matter from the college standpoint and who did not appreciate fully the needs...