President Conant observed that perhaps too many young men got to college and that a more rigid intellectual standard for admission might be a good thing.
The New Yorker, February 5 , 1938P. 9 President Conant observed that perhaps too many young men got to college and that a more rigid intellectual standard for admission might be a good thing.
It frees them from the power of the local education authority, with its rigid catchment areas and admissions criteria.
The broader and more general question raised here is the extent to which the early modern understanding of disease was flexible, while coexisting with increasingly rigid institutional structures and admissions practices, tightened house rules, and more explicit professional hierarchies in the specialized health-care institutions of sixteenth-century Augsburg.
Kirk Kolbo, a lawyer for the white students who brought the suit, argued that the university has "effectively replaced a fixed and rigid quota with a dual-admissions system" for white and minority applicants, and said that diversity "is a concept so vague, so open-ended, so malleable, and so subject to abuse and pretext" that it cannot be considered a compelling governmental interest.
The large majority of affirmative action programs at universities, unlike that of the U.C.-Davis medical school, did not use rigid numerical quotas for minority admissions and could continue.
Robert M. O'Neil wrote in the California Law Review the same year that only rigid quotas were foreclosed to admissions officers and even "relatively subtle changes in the process by which applications were reviewed, or in the resulting minority representation, could well produce a different alignment [of justices]".
In the present clinical report, rigid bronchoscopy was not available at admission and the patient was intubated.
We feel our study raises concerns about the adequacy of the present constituent criteria of the BPT, and demonstrates a disconnect between a fundamental outcome (1-year survival) and adherence to rigid criteria at the time of admission.
"[S]ome attention to numbers," without more, does not transform a flexible admissions system into a rigid quota.
