Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee on Educational Policy admissions subcommittee will study the problem posed by the large number of Freshmen who change their minds each year about concentrating in the Natural Sciences, Franklin L. Ford, associate professor of History and chairman of the group, announced yesterday...
...problem of comparing this statistical "smartness" with that of students admitted to the 'Cliffe is accentuated by Radcliffe's traditional tight-lipped policy on SAT scores. "Radcliffe has no mathematical formula for choosing students, as most men's colleges do," Constance Pratt, 'Cliffe admissions director, explains...
...problem is not so easy to solve as the statistics imply. "What we're really bickering about is a few intelligence points which don't really make much difference," Thomas F. Pettigrew, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, points out. Almost all students at the two colleges are on the same high plane of scholastic ability, and each sex seems to have a particular arete in some field...
...history grader commented on the problem, girls seem to have a greater "vitality" in approaching subject matter. "A girl is much more likely to come up to a grader and say, I don't like any of these suggested essay topics. But what I am interested in is....' She is much more likely to take a special interest in some one problem or element of a course, and want to follow through by herself. In contrast to this, a boy will read the list of paper topics, pick out an appropriate one, then deal with it matter-of-factly...
...prickings of conscience have finally moved the Legislature to consider the case," Schlesinger said. He expressed hope that the Legislature will establish a committee of legal experts to study the problem. "We might succeed after four or five tries," he added...