Word: record
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Skippering for the Crimson in the "110" class, Saltonstall has a record of eight wins and no defeats for two years...
...Class of '63 will include "at least 50 and perhaps 75 more students" than its immediate predecessor, Dean Bender revealed yesterday. This increase of around five per cent means that a record-breaking class of over 1200 will enroll in September...
...taken the lead in "selling" Ivy League education in the West and South. Teams from the admissions office have toured schools encouraging applications from students who might never have heard of Harvard before. In the present freshman class, there are nearly six hundred different secondary schools represented, a record number. Geographically, at least, Harvard is becoming more "national" in character. In the class of '56, 44 per cent of the students were New Englanders; in the class of '62 only 29 per cent. While New England has dropped, the Middle Atlantic States have risen slightly, as has the South...
Other private schools, which have a tradition of admissions at the eighth or seventh grade level, find many of the same problems, slightly altered, that Harvard does. The record of a child who has reached the eighth grade is an uncertain thing at best. A boy who starts prep school this early and does not do well scholastically will be outdistanced further and further as outstanding "new boys" come in to his school...
...admissions officials in the past few decades. One of the more difficult cases settled by the Admissions Committee last week concerned a straight-A student from a small Negro high school (74 in the graduating class) in North Carolina. Judging by his demonstrated leadership and by his secondary school record, he was an ideal candidate for admission. Being colored also gave him a definite advantage, since non-whites are given preference over equally-qualified white students. One fact kept this student out of Harvard: his 385 score on the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Are cases like this...