Word: review
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown coaches, usually on a scale of 1 to 6. There are also depth charts for alumni children, music, art, theater. The music department, for instance, rates oboists and violinists by ability and the orchestra's need for them. That evening Rogers meets with the hockey coach to review 82 prospects. Picking up the application of a defenseman from Canada, Rogers reads his courses aloud: "English, auto mechanics, consumer math, shop ..." He looks for the essay. There is none; instead, the candidate has enclosed his team's player program, listing goals, assists, penalty minutes. Rogers shakes his head...
...been getting up at 6 a.m. to take courses at a nearby college. Her mother is a maid, and she has six siblings, including a brother at Yale. Her essay radiates energy and will. She gets an A 83-admitted, unless Rogers has second thoughts at "minority review": "If we take her, I'm going to grab that grade book a year from now and see how she's doing...
This week the committee makes its last and hardest choices. On Sunday Rogers conducts "athletic review." "It does no good to take 48 split ends and no linebackers," he explains. The director of athletics invariably appears and nervously paces the hallway outside the committee's meeting room. Sunday afternoon is set aside for "legacy review" to make sure the alumni have not been slighted. Monday morning is "geographic review," to make sure the regional mix is right. Then a waiting list of some 500 candidates must be drawn up; for most, it is Brown's polite...
...short story is a financial failure and its domestic life is a mess. Most of the old mass magazines that once made room for fiction are gone. The few that remain seem to prefer a composite of facts stapled with fictional techniques. During its fleeting life (1967-78), American Review established new boundaries and definitions for its writers. Editor Ted Solotaroff stopped using the term short story and simply called anything that wasn't poetry prose. He also had excellent taste...
Students would never have enough expertise to even compare with the full-time, year-round staff to set up a budge. Students lack an adequate sense of the overall university goals. CHUL already has student representatives, and they review the budget, especially that of room rent...