Word: admit
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Advanced, or sophomore standing provides the other alternative in cutting off a year from high school and college. Originally the Committee intended to admit qualified twelfth graders directly as sophomores. But because the quality of advanced work completed in high school could not be determined before admission time in May, practical considerations forced sophomore admission to give way to sophomore standing...
Following the faculty decision "to admit students of superior achievement and maturity who have completed the eleventh grade of secondary school," five high school juniors enrolled in the fall of '55. According to Hanson there is nothing extraordinary about them and all are doing well with group III averages or better. Four eleventh graders were admitted this fall; and while this number may increase somewhat, the Committee feels it will be kept small both because of the small number of qualified high school juniors and a desire to preserve the traditionally large proportion of freshman who have completed twelfth grade...
...former deans to rank among the finest students in Yale history. In private practice he was a partner in Manhattan's Lord, Day & Lord for more than 20 years (resigning only to become Attorney General), and an expert in corporation law. He is the first to admit that he is essentially a counselor, an office lawyer; he has never tried a case in court...
...with actions of certain individuals and pressure groups manipulating political power. This subtle distinction is valid and important in this context. If the economic functioning of the United States movie industry has been impeded more than what the lack of Catholic patronage (20 per cent of the population) would admit, this has been the work of individuals wielding political and economic sanctions independently of the authority of the Church as a body of the faithful. The representation of these people and groups as the concensus of the Church is entirely unwarranted. The criticism of "super-legal" action rests upon them...
...cannot finish his mission until he can talk to the Red Chinese. He cannot talk to them until the United States recognizes them, and the United Nations cannot negotiate with them until America agrees to admit them to the U.N. Laying aside all the legalistic and moralistic arguments pro and con recognition of Red China, it becomes apparent that even expediency dictates American recognition of Red China and its admission to the United Nations...