Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agonizing, seemingly irrational process, which only works if the men on the admissions committee have faith in it. And they do. "If you turn this many people away, you've got to believe you have a reason for it," Peterson says. "I think this is a very effective system...
Admissions officials begin to squirm when the word "quota" turns up in conversation. "The only quota is the quota of common sense," says Cotton. Doermann doesn't think the docket system imposes any quota at all, "but I can see why someone wouldn't believe...
Talk about quotas irks admissions staffers because they don't like to think of the admissions process as a mechanical one. And despite the statistical consistency of the class from year to year, admissions staffers work long and hard precisely because they refuse to rely on the numbers. Sandy Koufax's earned-run average always hovered around 2.0, but he sweated for every strikeout...
...page and one thirty-page paper each term. He criticized the two-pager in great detail, and marked it stiffly; thus students were driven to invest a good deal of time into the thirty-pager-only to get it back ungraded, with the comment, " I don't think one can measure an effort of this sort by a number or letter...
...Board has been making seasonal adjustments properly; he suspects that the money supply early this summer may have been growing more slowly than even the old figures would indicate. McCracken said recently to a group of banking students: "If you find yourself a bit confused by all this, think of the plight of those who, having persuaded people that the rate of monetary and credit expansion is important, now find that they have surprisingly little idea of what that rate has been...