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...study, conducted by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Harvard Office of Tests, concluded that the 255 students who were identified as participants in the 1967 Dow sit-in held a higher than average position on the Harvard rank list...
These results stem from a "small, insignificant test," according to Whitla. "This office is always running tests on every kind of group, trying to find any sort of relationship between grades and students," he explained. "This is the result of one set of data we just happened...
...Whitla said that he did not wish to go into the details of the tests. "If it were a good study with highly significant results, I would have released it," he added. "But it just wasn't anything much...
Stewart said he was pleased by the change, "first because Whitla's suggestion removes an annoyance to undergraduates and tutors in the Houses, and second because it makes it possible to treat tampering with the system as a clearly anti-social act without the excuse which it seemed to have before...
After talking with the students involved, Whitla suggested the plan for the ohmmeters, which the Department of Buildings and Grounds has adopted. According to Stewart, Houses may activate the alarm system at the beginning of each year to show what the horns sound like...