Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technician 30 20 Foreman, factory supervisor 18 13 Clerical Office worker 65 53 Laborer, factory hand 57 40 Public worker 10 10 Farmer 11 19 Housekeeper, Housewife 19 14 Unemployed 8 1 Retired 7 21 Miscellaneous 2 1 None listed 27 25 Total 1116 1128 Note shift in admissions toward sons of parents in "professions...
...most concerned about this problem is Richard King, Assistant Director of Admissions and Scholarships, who has mapped out, statistically, Harvard's journey toward the upper-income brackets. With college costs now at a level equal to 50 per cent of many lower-income bracket family incomes, a family has to place unusual value on a Harvard education to want to send a son here...
...Harvard has spread itself out to include more schools and schools further from Cambridge, the question remains what kind of schools and what kind of people is Harvard attracting. Professor Samuel A. Stouffer, an Admissions Committee member, notes that despite the effort expended toward attracting bright people in large high schools, the small town high school has been neglected. "We don't do very well in Hush-puppy, Georgia," Stouffer comments. The large Eastern preparatory schools continue to supply sizeable delegations, but with more schools represented and fewer from any one. Even Exeter's formidable shipments have eased off some...
...extends down to prep schools and the better public schools. "We would like to have an entrance examination," says Mr. Hopkinson at Boston Latin, "but we have to consider anyone who has a B average in grammar school." Private schools become more selective as their numbers grow. Scholarships aim toward providing economic and geographical diversity, as well as financial aid. Some schools, like Exeter, do not wait for outstanding boys to apply, but actively seek them. In Iowa, for instance, Exeter finds out the names of outstanding newsboys from the Des Moines Register and Tribune and encourages them to apply...
...egotism eventually finds its way into moral and political laxity, but there are over eighty College-wide undergraduate organizations, not counting the numerous House groups. How many students are there in these groups--organizers, producers, managers, entrepreneurs, paper-pushers, as well as political administrators--who never take the step toward irresponsibility? Mr. Levy's reasoning is true in some cases, to his regret and mine, but applying it as broadly as the article does is doing a disservice to the hundreds of students involved in some way or other with being "representatives" who consistently give loyal service to the College...