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...your name to the answer sheet. The S.A.T. scale runs from 200 to 800. A hopeful note: a survey of the 550 Eastern colleges and universities participating with this Center reveals that these admissions directors look first at the applicant's course grade average, then at his class rank, finally at his College Board scores...
...review of the Concerto Contest in the Crimson for Monday, January 15 leaves much to be desired. People who attended the contest must in general rank the contestants in the opposite order to that your reviewer chose...
Apart from their rank in the royal household (just above St. James's Palace caretaker) and their pay ($232.80 a year), the most modest thing about Britain's poets laureate has been their state poetry. In the age of the Hollow Man, task-basket verse celebrating a monarch's birthday or the puberty of a prince sounds at best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged...
...schoolteacher by profession, Matos joined Castro in the Sierra Maestra in 1957, rose to the highest revolutionary rank-major-and, after Castro's final victory, became military leader of Camagüey province. Then, as Castro began swinging toward Moscow, Matos sounded the alarm. "The Communists are in the driver's seat," he warned, "trying to steal the revolution." When Castro refused to kick the Communists out of his inner circle, Matos resigned. The next day, Castro had him arrested. After a seven-hour courtroom harangue by Castro, he was convicted...
...statement of fourteen "leading scholars," including two from Harvard, about American policies in Asia. To see Professor Handlin's signature on this document was hardly surprising, as his position on the war is well known; we were surprised only to find that he has now been elevated to the rank of "Asian scholar"--at least in the eyes of the New York Times. The case of Professor Reischauer, however, troubles us more deeply. It is true that the statement warns that not all its signers accept all its provisions. Still, Professor Reischauer has lent his considerable prestige to a position...