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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading, young Symington was an indifferent student in both high school and college days. A stubborn refusal to take a required mathematics course kept him from getting his Yale A.B. with the rest of his class in 1923 (Yale finally relented and gave him his degree 22 years later...
Gold Board. Young President Turbeville might have rushed back to Minnesota. A quiet South Carolinian, the son of a chemical salesman, he set out instead to make Northland work. First he expelled more than 40 sluggish students, some of them seniors. He ordered the faculty to crack down on marks, gave every student more work than he could handle. He established stiff entrance exams, rejected applicants below the top half of their high school classes. When stunned alumni asked how freshman-starved Northland could afford it, Salesman Turbeville hit the road...
...fully accredited; its seniors score in the top 30% in nationwide Educational Testing Service achievement tests. By next year, salaries for the school's 30 teachers will have nearly doubled to a $7,000 maximum. To Theologian Harmon Bro, formerly of Syracuse University and a onetime Northland student, the Turbeville treatment is "a reincarnation." Bro has left Syracuse to teach at Northland...
Eliminating objective tests in English might be an answer. "Tests reward students who can remember, not interpret," says Dean Wilson. But to President Henry Chauncey of the Educational Testing Service (a C.E.E.B. offshoot), objective tests still seem the only solution for college applicants. Writing in the current Atlantic, he argues that objective tests are more accurate. An essay may be written badly by a good student in a state of fluster, or graded in a dozen ways by as many readers. As a one-shot gauge of college eligibility, says Chauncey, the essay is unfair and undependable...
Concerted Effort. But Chauncey is just as concerned as anyone about composition. He calls for "a tremendous concerted effort" to get U.S. students writing more often and better. The new C.E.E.B. essay question is not in itself a panacea. It will take an hour, cover three pages and not be scored. It will go to three colleges, of the student's choice, which can do what they will with it. But it may at last replace the usual pat "biography" required by colleges, and students will get no help from papa. More important, it may help U.S. schools...