Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan is approved, Radcliffe may be ready to admit younger students. This is significant because while the average age of marriage has dropped two years, according to recent surveys, the average age of Radcliffe freshman applicants has remained almost exactly...
...healing layer of time has grown between Dunlop and these disputes, and he is now on better terms with both parties. Philosophizing on his experiences, Dunlop has to admit that he thrives on crises, and thinks the world is better for them. "Most people are afraid of a crisis--they try to avoid it. But a crisis should be welcomed, for out of it peace is born...
Last week the case of Laura Jean Lingo got a full official airing. Had she received adequate emergency treatment at Woodlawn? Medical witnesses agreed that she had. Had her life been endangered by Woodlawn's refusal to admit her? Doctors thought not. What had she died of? Dr. Jerry Kearns, coroner's physician, said he was sure she had died of the burns, but in fact nobody knew, because Coroner Walter McCarron (no physician but a politician) decided not to order an autopsy...
...member of the Committee on Educational Policy last night attacked that Committee's plan to admit students to the College as sophomores. J. Douglas Bush, professor of English, also revealed that he had voted against this point in the Committee meetings--the one vote cast by a Committee member against any of the advanced standing proposals...
Such a plan, and a good one, is the Committee's proposal to admit a few exceptional students after three years of secondary school. The senior year in school is often un-stimulating, a duplication of work to come later in college. The only argument against these early admissions is the largely unsuccessful experiment the Ford Foundation made at Yale, Columbia, and Chicago. But these "pre-induction" scholarships were given to students sixteen or under, with no more than two years of high school. Those coming to Harvard under the new plan would be a year older and should...