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Harold C. Martin, director of General Education Ahf, also thought that exemptions from his course would affect only a small number of incoming students, Martin said, "Very few students write so well when they reach Harvard that they don't benefit from a writing course." He felt that a better solution than exemptions lies in the course's new "honor sections," designed to step up work for the able writer...
...affected by any system of advanced standing. The report states that students may be permitted to omit one or two elementary General Education courses if they secure advanced placement in the area or areas covered by the courses. Freshmen with superior writing ability could secure exemption from General Education Ahf...
General Education Ahf has not solved this problem. Those who lack writing ability or experience need more than its bi-weekly short papers. But they shy away from the more advanced English C, because they feel that it is aimed at the fledgling creative writer. Those few who do turn out for English C sometimes find themselves rejected because their work is of an inferior grade. this is especially true this year, when an instructor's illness has vastly over-loaded the remaining sections of the course, and even students with considerable talent have been rejected...
About 100 outstanding freshmen will be placed in smaller, more advanced sections for General Education Ahf during the spring term...
Actually, Gen. Ed. Ahf topped enrollment with 1,431 students--1,172 Harvard and 259 Radcliffe--but it is a required course...