Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...median verbal SAT score for the class of '66 is 679; it has grown unevenly since the class of '61, which had a median...
...crescendo last week, and no one any longer pretended harmony. In Budapest, addressing a congress of the Hungarian Communist Party, Moscow Delegate Otto Kuusinen. 81, oldest member of Khrushchev's Presidium, denounced a Red Chinese visitor two seats away: "Bigmouthed extreme leftist critics are bravely brandishing their verbal weapons before world imperialism." But when the chips were down in Cuba, Kuusinen added, those who "beat their breasts were incapable of giving the slightest practical help to revolutionary Cuba...
...This verbal cloud linking the sciences and the humanities hides two dangers. First, it leaves the undergraduate student of science unprepared for the distinctions de facto between scientific and humane which he will encounter in the liberal arts college, in Harvard particularly. Second, it gives rise to the belief that the unity of the sciences and the humanities as human endeavors is necessary rationally to derive, or to excuse the kind of general education which a liberal arts college wants to give. For general education to rest unity as its justification is for general education to false premise. Thus...
...similar levelling-off was noted in the median SAT scores of entering freshmen. The median verbal SAT was 679, an increase of one point from the Class of '65 and anet increase of three over the last four classes. The increase from the Class of '61 to '64 had been 39 points...
Glimp saw some significance in the fact that the median verbal score of the bottom ten per cent of the class dropped 23 points, from 581 to 568. He said the drop was evidence that the Admissions Committee was giving more weight to to "non-objective" factors in selecting candidates and that Harvard was getting "more really strong candidates in the low range of SAT scores...