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Most high school seniors suppose that getting into Harvard requires a score of 700 or above (top: 800) on college-board tests. Not necessarily, say Admissions Men Fred L. Glimp and Dean K. Whitla in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Harvard more and more seeks men who may score below 500 but have something else: "a touch of greatness." High school teachers and principals are asked to weigh this quality on a high-to-low scale of 1 to 6. Glimp and Whitla wisely avoid defining it, but envision some combination of "effectiveness, energy, judgment, integrity, generosity of spirit or cussedness...
Among the participants in the symposium are Paul H. Buck, Carl Pforzheimer University Professor; David C. McClelland, chairman of the Department of Social Relations; George Wald, professor of Biology; Dean Ford; Edward Geary, professor of Romance Languages; and Dean Kay Whitla, director of the Office of Tests...
...will probably bet on a group of 800's to perform better than a group of 700's," says Dean K. Whitla, Director of the Office of Tests and Associate Director of Admissions. "But I am unwilling to say that a particular 800 will perform better than a particular...
...find that contact with professor, tutor, and House Master was an important factor to these academically average men in developing a sense of personal direction," Whitla writes...
...this reason Whitla plays down the importance of the charismatic relation between teacher and student. Instead, he stresses the role of educational programs which seek to involve the student personally in his work...