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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Statistics for any class in the College illustrate what sort of competition applicants to Harvard must face. In the Class of 1957, for instance, 50 percent of the students scored over 609 on the verbal aptitude section of the College Board examinations; less than ten percent fell under the 500 mark. Only 165 of the some 1900 colleges and junior colleges in the United States expect applicants to take these tests. Since 500 is the median score, students here are among the best who applied to these most selective colleges. Similarly with rank in class, more than half...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Admissions: What Kind of Wheat to Winnow | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

Green Light. Under fire were ramifications of the kickoff Gray proposal: a statewide referendum, scheduled for Jan. 9, on whether to hold a state constitutional convention. The convention, if authorized, could revise Section 141 of the Virginia constitution which, like similar laws in 44 other states, now prohibits the use of public funds for private schools. Revision would open the way to publicly financed "tuition grants," which would foot the bills for parents to send children to segregated private schools anywhere in the state. Corollary legislation under the Gray plan would allow school boards to assign pupils to public schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Virginia Creeper | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...small scenes Fra Angelico painted in translucent colors for the predella (base) of the Cortona Annunciation are each in themselves small hymns of praise to the Virgin. A small section in the panel of Mary's Visit to Elizabeth (see p. 34) made art history. It is the first identifiable landscape in Italian painting, a view of Lake Trasimeno as seen from Cortona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Bearers of Gifts | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...associates may be seen busily picking up unpremeditated opinion from critics and public about the hall's acoustics. Orchestra men generally like it, because they can hear each other as the sound bounces off the "clouds" (in most halls, a violinist hears little beyond the string section, a trumpeter hardly anything except the brasses). So far, the novelty of being able to hear so clearly has convinced audiences, too, that Kresge is an acoustic marvel. But if, as seems likely, it becomes the acoustic model for other halls, the music of the future is sure to have a radically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Sound | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...also a shortage of good salesmen and secretarial help. Said an employment-agency executive in Dallas: "It's hard to locate just the kind of jobs these young ladies seem to be looking for these days. Either the pay's too low, or the boss of their section is already married, or the company cafeteria serves lousy food, or there's only two weeks' vacation after one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Scarcities of Plenty | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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