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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shows in an essay soon to be published that for the Class of 1968, there is just about no correlation between admission to Harvard and such factors as SAT scores, rank-in-class, and predicted rank list. The correlation between admissions and the personal factor is better than 90 percent...
...words, the better the educational institution, the more likely it is to give students the feeling that they are incompetent or mediocre, and that they are not really very brilliant--unless they are fantastically talented. If they are only moderately talented, say in the top one-tenth of one percent of the population, they are likely to come out with the feeling of being only first-rate second-raters. The Peace Corps and like experiences (ACCION, AFSC, PAPAL Volunteers, etc.) may give such students a second chance for self-confidence...
...wasn't comfortable with it," she says. "Eighty-five percent of the people had nothing wrong with them physically. They were simply troubled." In 1961 Dr. Giorgi moved to Los Angeles for a year's residency in psychiatry at Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in turn taking over the center's clinic and establishing its comprehensive home-care program-and a movie-star-studded practice of her own. In July 1965, she volunteered to examine Watts children who were beginning the Office of Economic Opportunity's Head Start program, and was appalled...
...ratio of doctors to patients in Watts was 1 to 2,900," she said, "The infant-mortality rate was almost double the overall U.S. rate. Sixty-eight percent of the children I examined had something wrong with them. Ninety percent had never seen a dentist...
...ballot, he said, and that there is an organization out there working to end the war. Most important, encourage the undecided; don't antagonize them, but give them a little talk and the pamphlet of Boston Globe antiwar editorials. The CNCV could count on only about fifteen percent of Cambridge to vote against the war. The great hope was with the undecided...