Word: ap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Following are excerpts from a report to the Faculty on the Program of Advanced Standing, 1955-61, presented March 6 by Edward T. Wilcox, director. The report is accompanied by tables on growth of AP at Harvard; performance of AP students who entered sequent middle-group courses in their first year of residence; comparison of per cent of sophomore-standing students and others in each rank list group; and a list of graduated advanced standing students...
...report states that in September 1961 Harvard received AP. candidates from over 200 different schools, and that these 540 persons composed about 45 per cent of the incoming class. Of these, 134 received AP in three or more subjects and were eligible for sophomore standing...
...Another prediction [in addition to shift in balance from private to public schools sending AP students to Harvard] seems to be working out. The number of advanced placement candidates at Harvard has begun to level off; the rate of increase has slowed down. Last year there were only ten more candidates than the year before--540 against 530--the number of examinations was substantially the same. This stabilization is, in my view, closely related to the nature of our applicant group and our admissions policy, and suggests that we may be reaching an upper limit in the number of advanced...
...steel industry's unexpected price boost (see THE NATION), the early morning urgency was a pretty highhanded use of the FBI. The three newsmen had indeed all attended the Bethlehem stockholders' meeting, but what they had reported was far from earth shaking. Two of the men-the AP's Linder and the Wilmington Journal's Parks-had put Bethlehem President Edmund F. Martin on record as opposing any price hike...
...Parks quoted a prepared statement from Martin that read in part: The settlement with the steel unions "represents a cost increase at a time when we are trying to hold the line on prices. We should be trying to reduce the price of steel if at all possible." The AP's Linder caught the following remarks from Martin after the meeting: "There shouldn't be any price rise. We shouldn't do anything to increase our costs if we are to survive." Parks recorded much the same remarks in his notes, but because his story appeared after...