Word: aikins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commission on the Relation of School and College. This is the famed "so-schools experiment," comparing achievements of boys and girls from Progressive schools, admitted to college without examination, with those of matched graduates of conventional schools. Last week Commission Chairman Wilford M. Aikin, of Ohio State, reported that by the second year of this five-year trial, Progressive students were doing a little better in marks than conventional ones, were using their college opportunities more wisely...
Director Wilford M. Aikin of St. Louis' John Burroughs School headed a committee to put the scheme across. By last week Chairman Aikin & committee had persuaded 275 colleges, including virtually all the big ones except Harvard and Yale, to agree. In 32 selected schools, ranging from Milton Academy outside Boston to the Denver High Schools, the plan is already in effect for part or all of the students. In June, 1936, the 32 schools will graduate about 1,000 students who will be admitted to college on the recommendation of principals and headmasters, plus school marks, plus showing...