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Perkins suggested that abolition of Sophomore Standing would not necessitate a four-year program for students who wished to accelerate their work. Undergraduates can finish in three years, he said, by attending summer school or taking extra courses.
Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, and Zeph Stewart, associate professor of Greek and Latin, have supported the abolition of Sophomore Standing as advocated in the recent report by the Student Council Committee on Educational Policy.
The Administration has grown fond of the Sophomore Standing program, so fond that University Hall is likely to greet with great reserve any action to abolish it. The Student Council Committee that actually did recommend abolition realized well enough that the apparently more valuable and certainly more expedient course would...
The Student Council approved by a single vote last night the report of the committee on Educational Policy recommending the abolition of Sophomore Standing. After the Council members had deadlocked 9-9, on a motion for approval of the report, President Howard J. Phillips '62 cast the deciding favorable vote...
Individual objections to the document centered on the "inadequate" explanation many of the Committee's recommendations. Several members said that the report would carry greater weight in any Administrative decision if the Committee's three primary points--abolition of Sophomore Standing, examination of Freshman year with regard to seminars and...