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m ' E cannot live only for ourselves. A thou- sand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threatls, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as efi ects. IMelville 5 Corps;
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CoLOJsEL Arthur M. LiPscoiiB, Jr. Director of Admissions No review of changes in the academic standards of the Institute would be complete without mention of the very able and highly successful efforts of the Director of Admissions, Colonel Arthur McLaurine Lipscomb, Jr. Colonel Lipscomb ' s record at the VMI reflects a sense of dedication and progress. He was graduated from the Institute in June 19.S4 with a B.A. and joined the faculty in September of that year. He holds a I.A. from Duke University which was conferred in 1941. From 1943-45, he served with the Army Air Corps. Rejoining the faculty in 1946, he was an assistant professor of English. He is now a full professor of English, holding membership in the Modern Language Association and in the College English Association. Colonel Lipscomb assumed the responsibility of directing the admissions program in 1955, leaving teaching and taking up full-time administrative work. Since making the transition from faculty to staff, he has had a more direct influence on the long-range academic im- provement. In the past seven years, apphcations for admission have more than doubled, now numbering ap- proximately 1,500 per year, while acceptances have increased by only twenty per cent. Careful screening and evaluation by the Admissions Board and by Colonel Lipscomb are, of necessity, demanded by the imbalance. Since 1956, the first year of significant change under Lipscomb, the mean percentiles of the entering cadets on the standardized achievement and placement tests have increased by forty per cent in verbal aptitude and by twenty-eight per cent in mathematic aptitude. The College Boartl Examination was made a requisite for application in 1959, and an increase in the scores of those accepted reflects an eight per cent improvement in verbal aptitude and a five per cent improvement in mathematic aptitude. The selectivity and rising ad- missions standards must and are keeping pace with the strides made toward academic improvement. Though the immediate significance of the more strin- gent admissions standards is not readily apparent, the worth of the program is reflected in the records ccmpiled by those graduates affected. In the past five years, to mention only a few of the more notable achievements. Institute graduates have won two Rhodes Scholarships, one Dan- forth Fellowship, three Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, three Fulbright Scholarships, and three English Speaking Union grants. The VMI is rated among the top 100 colleges and universities in the nation academically. based on the number of men activelv pursuins M.D. ' s and Ph.D. -s. The Institute, like any organism, must grow and progress, for to cease to grow is to die. The VMI is first and foremost an academic institution and must depend for its continued existence and excellence upon those individuals and agencies which advance its ends. It is, then, the support given the Dean, the Academic Board, and the Faculty which will cause valid and significant improvement.
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