Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rank in class and scores on a nationally administered test will probably be considered by local draft boards in granting deferments to college students, the Associated Press reported yesterday...
Meanwhile they remained firmly committed to two other, more controversial reforms. One was to hike the minimum rank listing for an honors senior to Group III from Group IV, in order to filter out the less able thesis writers. The other was to establish a system of senior seminars as an alternative to the thesis. Each six to eight-person seminar would be led by a tutor and would be concentrated on a specific subject, such as the Progressive Era in America. Each participant would write a 40-page paper -- about half the length of a standard History thesis...
During the Korean War deferments were based on either students' rank in their class or their score on, a special attitude test administered by the Selective Service without regard to their field of study. In an interview yesterday, Monro said the tests "were a rough-hewn way of doing it, but they worked pretty well. The public accepted and understood them during the Korean...
...score was tied at 85-all, and Harvard had the ball out of bounds at midcourt. Gene Dressler threw a looping pass into the backcourt over the head of guard Bob Seller -- who fell down. The Jumbos' Pete Scully picked up the loose ball, drew a foul, and rank two free throws to give Tufts the victory...
...Richard M. Nixon, who has withstood the mudslings and arrows of outrageous fortune and remains No. 1 choice to lead rank-and-file Republicans...