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Sir / As a college teacher, I can suggest a reason for the downward trend in Scholastic Aptitude Tests scores overlooked in the article [Dec. 31]. It is the pervasive narcissism of our contemporary culture that deflects today's capable youth from mastering the accumulated knowledge of the past, which...
In New York City last week the College Entrance Examination Board issued a profile of the 1,000,000 American 1973 high school seniors who took its Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT). The profile revealed many noteworthy facts (girls got higher average scores, for example, yet had less ambitious college plans...
WHAT KIND of Local Line can you conjure? Local Line, three local boys who came to Harvard to make good and for three and a half years made good collectively and individually and for the remaining half year made good in two-thirds effectives as one third beat a hasty...
Focussing on reaping the fruits of nostalgia, AHA has failed to expand its narrow parochial sense of responsibility. The University, not its alumni foundations, claims their energies. At a time when the Bachelor of Arts degree has decreasing financial value (if it ever did, according to Jencks) a college education...
The pathetic feature of Prof. Bell's letter centers on his extraordinary effort to portray himself as a model black faculty member at my expense. This tactic is so cheap that it warrants little comment, save that is is the stock-in-trade of those intellectually and academically dubious. Indeed...