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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III noted in his 1972 study of the arts at Harvard, the notion of a "university" is based on ancient Greek ideals, "in which reason and verbal discourse were far more important than manual skills and creative imagination...
...higher pitch: SAT averages for last June's crop of high school seniors made their largest combined gain since 1963. That was the year the scores began a decline lasting nearly two decades. Out of a possible 800, math results climbed by 3 points, to 471; verbal averages were up by 1, to 426. Says George Hanford, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the test: "We seem to have turned the corner in seeking to improve American education...
...class of '84-took the SAT exam last year. The test is designed to predict how students will perform in college. But each year's results have come to be scrutinized as a signal of how U.S. high schools are going. The plunge from 1963 (when the verbal average was 478, the math average 502) to 1980 and '81 (when they bottomed out at 424 verbal and 466 math) was attributed to social factors, softening ,- academic standards and deteriorating schools...
...math, perhaps a result of increased concentration on math and science study. Moreover, at a time when the quality of America's teachers has raised concern, more students indicated a career interest in education, and their scores climbed more sharply than those of students generally. Potential educators had verbal averages of 398, up 4 points, and their math scores were...
...dinner meeting of Italian-Americans in New York City at week's end, both Ferraro and O'Connor spoke. But guests expecting more verbal fireworks about abortion were disappointed. Neither challenged the other. They patted each other's hands and smiled fleetingly before parting. Yet the emotions stirred by the religious controversy seemed unlikely to subside during the remaining days of the presidential campaign...