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Masked Skills. The tests mainly predict if a student can achieve "good grades in the standard curriculums as they are usually taught." Test pressures distort education at every level. While some schools overemphasize test taking, colleges occasionally reject low scorers with other talents that would benefit society as well as colleges themselves. Example: 85% of black high school seniors score below the current national average (375) on the verbal-aptitude test. Those scores reflect poor schooling, not the blacks' real potential, says the commission. For all races, the tests tend to mask special skills and interests...
DARTMOUTH-CORNELL: Obviously, Dartmouth is going to win, and I'm not going to be stupid enough to predict otherwise. And being in Ithaca isn't going to be the disadvantage one might expect since Jim Buckley, Senator Jim Buckley, who is reportedly a big fan of Bob Blackman because of his ability to win by such a large margin, will be in Ithaca to cheer the Indians and pick up pointers from Blackman. While Dartmouth is fussing about its national statistics, Ed Marinaro will be doing the same. He may have real trouble with the Dartmouth defense and thus...
...management of the Faculty Club has been conducting a referendum on whether to retain the rule. "Though it's too early to predict a trend, it's been running 65-35 in favor of the rule," said Charles Coulson, manager of the Faculty Club...
...PRINCETON: "Be true to your school, like you would to your girl or guy," we've been told by emotional-impact analysts. That's fine. Cap'n Crunch and I will surely be there, and that will help the Crimson, but I just don't think I can honestly predict a victory for Harvard. Granted, we usually do better in Palmer Stadium than we do here, but that's academic. Princeton, of course, is no pussy emotionally. The team's feelings can probably best be summed up by Fabian's immortal words in "Tiger"-"I want to growl Wow!" What...
Unfree Enterprise. It is not difficult to predict the outrage that Wills' book will detonate in Spiro Agnew-to say nothing of Nixon himself. Wills attacks ad hominem and sometimes quite unfairly-even granting the license of political satire. In one unpleasant lapse, for example, he describes Pat and Dick Nixon getting married: "The serious young man, son of a Quaker saint, docilely lines up at the marriage mart, where all the gooiest extras-orange blossoms, 'O Promise Me,' illusion veils -cover the emptiness of the transaction." It is both Wills' method and mistake to insert...