In the February Atlantic, James Fallows looked closely at Scholastic Aptitude Tests and found that their results are treated with a reverence they do not necessarily deserve. Here is a selection from many letters written in response to the Fallows article.
Bostonian and lifelong Republican, THOMAS D. CABOT is Executive Vice President of Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., and former President of United Fruit Company. Late in 1950, when the United Nations troops were being repulsed at the Yalu River, his friends Lloyd Brace, the Boston banker. Judge Charles Wyzanski, and Dean Donald David of the Harvard Business School urged him to go down to Washington “to help with an important defense job that needed doing.” This he did, and these are the comparisons which he inevitably drew during his ten months in the State Department.