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...Whitla's Idea...
Stewart credits Dean K. Whitla, acting Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, with the idea of using ohmmeters for silent testing. The suggestion came after Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, complained last December to Stewart about residents of Lowell who, bothered by the noise during testing periods, had disconnected the fire alarms in their rooms...
...folder, after which a preliminary decision is made in a small sub-committee responsible for a geographical area. If a student is rejected at this level, he is probably through. His case will not even be presented before the full admissions committee unless new evidence becomes available or, as Whitla puts it, "the advocate decides after sleeping on it that he didn't argue a certain case effectively in the area committee...
...gets heated," Whitla says. "A guy gets disgusted because someone else can't see his point. By the time the whole thing is over, you know everyone on the committee and where his psyche...
...answers. First, each man on the admissions committee feels in his own mind that a "good mix" is a necessary thing for Harvard College. If the admissions committee has just okayed nine consecutive students from a small town in Oregon, it will become wary of admitting more. Perhaps, as Whitla suggests, the advocate himself will not be able to find it in him to argue a tenth case enthusiastically. More important, there is something of a quota built into the admissions process. This is the docket system. Applicants are divided into 22 dockets, according to the secondary school the student...