Word: sections
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...three chance that your true score would be somewhere between 570 and 630; there is a one-in-three chance that it would be below 570 or above 630. According to an ETS booklet, a 72-point difference between two students' scores on the SAT math section, and a 66-point difference on the verbal section, is so statistically insignificant that "it cannot be taken seriously." For the Law Boards, a difference of 67 points cannot be taken seriously...
Those are the chief conclusions of the second TIME Citizens' Panel conducted by the public-opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. Last month TIME published the results of the first survey, taken among 300 voters chosen at random from a national cross section of 1,500 people. To examine the changing-or unchanging -reactions to the campaign, Yankelovich went to 303 other voters between Oct. 8 and 10, after the second debate...
...Natural Selection and Behavioral Biology," came out of nowhere to take second place this year, with an enrollment of 515. Stephen Gaulin, a section person in the course, said last week it provides general rules about daily life, and students take it because they want to know about evolution...
HARVARD at PRINCETON: After what the Tigers did to the Crimson last year at The Stadium, there isn't much hope for them in the game today. Kindness will be a commodity in short supply at Princeton, and even an Ec 10 section person can tell you that it will be the Tigers who will pay the price. the inoffensive Princetonites may have trouble getting past midfield. Harvard 24, Princeton...
Compared to Harvard, Brown is relatively weak financially; its $100 million endowment is roughly equal to the interest on Harvard's endowment in one year. Fiscal strain is in evidence all around the campus; one calculus instructor complains of 50-student section meetings and "very poorly maintained classrooms," both during and after the service workers' strike...