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After an 1884 ruling by Harvard's Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, all official play in football was abolished for the scholastic year 1885--because of what the committee labeled undue violence.
By almost every educational gauge, young Asian Americans are soaring. They are finishing way above the mean on the math section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test and, according to one comprehensive study of San Diego-area students, outscoring their peers of other races in high school grade-point averages. They...
The names of several women and minority candidates have already surfaced. They include: former U.S. Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman Jr., now a practicing lawyer he has placed highly in past searches; Joan T. Bok '51, no relation to Derek Bok, she is the President of New England Electric and...
High school students across the country dread that nerve-wracking rite of passage, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). But if some students at Brown University have their way, the test may become a thing of the past.
"People have to become aware that the test just doesn't measure scholastic aptitude--what it is supposed to do," said Brown senior Michael H. Spalter, the director of Students Against Testing, the campus organization that sponsored the referendum.