Word: switches
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...proposed switch--from Harvard's current requirement of the SAT and three Achievement Test scores to the option of submitting five Achievements and no SAT--is in one sense flexible and forward-looking. Admissions studies have indicated for several years now that scores on the Achievement Tests, which are detailed exams on specific high school subjects, tend to predict freshman adacademic performance better than scores on the more general and less curriculum-based SAT. Test experts--both at Harvard and nationwide--have recently argued that the SAT reflects not verbal or mathematical "aptitude," as advertised, but rather a high school...
Successful at everything else he ever attempted, Gizzi was used to being frustrated in a Harvard uniform. Freshman year he split time at quarterback with Columbo, and the next fall, he was asked to switch to Hanker, because of the Crimson's depth behind the center Gizzi says he felt "lost in the shuffle...
Gizzi decided to switch back to quarterback this year and to complete with eight others for the starting job. He sat on the bench for the last few games, until the ineffectiveness of Columbo and an injury to Sophomore Brian White gave him a shot Gizzi played well enough against Dartmouth in relief to get a start against Princeton...
...Helene-Patricia makes the switch from rags to riches, settling down among people and sweeping scenery of enormous charm, we find it hard to believe she will be able to pull it oft. She is, it seems, simply too vulnerable, sweet, and above all, guileless, to survive under the circumstances...
...transmission that changes from automatic to manual at the flip of a switch...