Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government continues to rank as the most popular field of concentration, it was learned from figures released yesterday by the Registrar's Office. Almost 15 percent of the 3,388 concentrators in the College or 501 men, have made it their field...
Over 200,000 men thus satisfied one of the suggested criteria for deferment. In addition to a score of 70 on the exam. satisfactory rank in the college class is recommended as a criterion to be used by draft boards in deferments. Satisfactory standing is upperhalf of the freshman class, upper two-thirds of the sophomore class, and upper three-fourths of the junior class. Seniors admitted to graduate study must stand in the upper half of their class, or get 75 on the exam...
...didn't seem that way. Not that there was a shortage of momentous texts. According to Clement Attlee, Labor had spent the last six years "cleaning up the mess of centuries." According to Winston Churchill, the last six years had marked "the greatest fall in the rank and stature of Britain since the loss of the American colonies." But the clash of massive allegations hardly disturbed a campaign that was decorous even by British standards...
...sent officers of high enough rank to the conference...
...breakdown of rank lists in the College for June, 1951, is: Group I, 2.6 percent; Group II, 12.0; Group III, 22.6; Group IV, 24.2; Group V, 19.0; Group VI, 1.6; Unsatisfactory, Incomplete, and Withdrawals...