"High school principals are unfair in charging college admissions boards, such as Harvard's, with tyranny," Richard Gummere told a Student Council Forum in Emerson D last night.
Before an audience of over 150, the chairman of the Committee on Admissions stated that Harvard's desire to get a well-rounded student body led it to have "flexible" standards in accepting men. Under certain conditions, he pointed out, Harvard will accept a boy who has taken a commercial or industrial course in school.
Gummere described the admission of students as a "cross between the science of human relations and the use of a sliding technical scale." A boy's predicted rank in college, he said, plays an important role in the final decision.
"There are four satisfactory candidates for each place in Harvard," Gummere declared.
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