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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Old guard Princeton alumnus speaks his old-guard mind
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 13:01:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 13:01:51 1984
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Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
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Summary: 

I think Will Martin has a good point.  The tendency of fewer children
of Alumni to go to Princeton is partly controlled by factors the
school cannot counter, among them:

	- College graduates have fewer children (Will's reason)
	- fewer princeton graduates can afford to send their
	  children to princeton (rampant inflation in college costs)
	- fewer children desire the semi-dynastic process of going to
	  the same school as their parents
	- more mothers have gone to college (mostly not at princeton)
	  and some follow dynastci urges at their mother's school.

In the past it was well-known that Ivy league scools would admit
almostany child of an alumnus, for at least one term, no matter how
unqualified the child, if the alumnus insisted.   I believe this is
still pretty much the policy, but if you compare the methods of
teaching and testing used now, to, say, the early 20th century, it
should be clear that its harder to push dunces through a good school
than it used to be.

	- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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