Mattimore: Privilege and Responsibility
(05/22/18 6:00am)
I am writing this commentary as a reaction to The Dartmouth’s editorial piece, “Verbum Ultimum: Open The Playground,” published on May 11, 2018.
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I am writing this commentary as a reaction to The Dartmouth’s editorial piece, “Verbum Ultimum: Open The Playground,” published on May 11, 2018.
On Friday, The Dartmouth reported that the College accepted 10 percent of applicants for next year's incoming class, a slight increase from last year ("College admits 10 percent of applicants to Class of 2017," March 29). Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and a handful of other schools all announced this past week that they accepted less than 10 percent of applicants for their respective freshman classes.
To the Editor:
Personality Contest
Several weeks ago, along with about 200 alumni, I attended a briefing in the San Francisco Bay Area about affairs related to the expansion of the Board of Trustees. That was one of a number of informational sessions conducted by trustees over a period of a couple of days around the country to try and keep alumni informed about "goings-on" in Hanover.
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Harvard University recently announced that it is ending early admissions beginning with fall matriculants in 2008. That decision has prompted editorial praise from The New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, USA Today and The Atlantic online, among others.
When we walk past a restaurant with a line out the door, most of us think, "Good restaurant." There are some other explanations for the line, of course. The restaurant could be in a can't-miss location or the service might be intentionally slow. The restaurant may be surviving on reputation or people may have joined the line as a function of a herd mentality.
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E.M. Crawford's letter "Why, Oh Why" (The Dartmouth, August 24) highlights one of the many problems with magazine rankings of colleges: the widespread misperception that numerically ranking colleges actually tells you something that is objectively valid regarding those universities.
At the Democratic National Convention in 1988, political commentator Jim Hightower remarked that the elder George Bush was "born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." Nice coattails for our current president!
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