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...useful in the admissions office's attempt to quantify the over 18,000 high school students who apply to Harvard every year. Grade point averages, because of grade inflation, are not always helpful tools, Hughes added. He said that many high schools do not even release class rank anymore...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Debate Fairness of SAT Examination | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

...useful in the admissions office's attempt to quantify the over 18,000 high school students who apply to Harvard every year. Grade point averages, because of grade inflation, are not always helpful tools, Hughes added. He said that many high schools do not even release class rank anymore...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speakers Debate Fairness of SAT Examination | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

...hour wage. "I'm saving everything I've got." Paying him the same amount a student earns to fund weekend activities and books would violate the treatment as an equal principle on two grounds. First, Bob's need for shelter would be relegated to the same rank as the Dorm Crew student's more trivial need for concert tickets or sourcebooks. Secondly, Bob does not expect the same drastic socioeconomic upturn that students do; for him and over a thousand others, their wage will change little over their lifetime...

Author: By Alexander T., NGUYEN | Title: A Thousand Caged Birds | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

CANTON, N.Y.--Of all the road weekends, Clarkson-St. Lawrence has to rank among the worst...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Goalie Error, Flatness Costs M. Hockey Two | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...Broadway in February 1949, the advance buzz was intense, the critics mostly raved (though TIME's Louis Kronenberger complained about its "inadequate artistry" and "sometimes stolid prose"), and the play went on to win both a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. It catapulted Arthur Miller to the top rank of American playwrights and has made perhaps a firmer dent in our consciousness than any other drama written for the American stage. So when the play celebrates its 50th anniversary this week with a new Broadway production, it's not just an occasion for theatrical nostalgia but time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: American Tragedy | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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