Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Field House, Robert A. Sidenberg 2L, President of the Forum, will introduce Dean Bundy, who will in turn present Castro. After the speech and question period, Castro is scheduled to attend a reception in his hotel...
Moving into Miss Borden's present post, Barbara Miller Solomon will become Director of Radcliffe Seminars and of Women's Archives. Now associate professor of History at Wheelock College, Mrs. Solomon graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1940, and took her Ph.D. from the College in 1953. In 1956 she published two books...
...these "Brave New Harvard" concepts seem to exist, among other members of the staff, at least, not as realistic alternatives, but as the grotesque projections of certain alarming trends in present-day admissions procedure: the tendency to equate preparation with ability, to rely too heavily on College Board scores and Predicted Rank Lists, and to ignore certain geographic and economic areas of American life. It is not sheer numbers which worries them, but who is applying and whether or not Harvard should take...
...same time, Harvard has taken the lead in "selling" Ivy League education in the West and South. Teams from the admissions office have toured schools encouraging applications from students who might never have heard of Harvard before. In the present freshman class, there are nearly six hundred different secondary schools represented, a record number. Geographically, at least, Harvard is becoming more "national" in character. In the class of '56, 44 per cent of the students were New Englanders; in the class of '62 only 29 per cent. While New England has dropped, the Middle Atlantic States have risen slightly...
There is, at present, a certain amount of pressure from the faculty to raise standards of preparation in mathematics and foreign languages and thereby eliminate a certain amount of elementary instruction in the first years of college. But Harvard would probably continue to take boys with relatively poor high school backgrounds. Saving the reasons for the "risk" in admissions until later, it is interesting to observe how successfully the College has managed to assimilate the Westerner with algebra and plane geometry on his record without slowing up the Exonian who has had a year of advanced calculus. Most...