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Nancy L. Storjohann, University of Washington '62, has been awarded an all-expense fellowship to attend the one-year Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration beginning September, 1962. The $3,000 stipend was a gift from a business executive to make possible the enrollment of a deserving young woman in the program...
...this as starkly as possible. If one conjectures on the growth of advanced placement during the next ten years, it seems probable that an upper limit in the number of entering students who have been afforded the opportunity to attend a school (usually suburban or private) that offers advanced placement work is probably five or six hundred--about half of the class But as this favored group becomes increasingly well trained and as our selection of students within these schools becomes increasingly rigorous the number of advanced placement candidates who become eligible for sophomore standing could approach 100 per cent...
...they're the best students in the class; why aren't they doing better? . . . By the quantitative measures we have, advanced standing students can be identified not by the level of their measured intelligence, their test scores and the like, but by the schools they were lucky enough to attend. They are in fact better prepared, perhaps a little more sophisticated, and they come from our best secondary schools; they are not necessarily, however, the brightest students in the class...
Having zipped over the U.S. at 17,750 m.p.h. during his 17-orbit spin last August, Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov, decided it was time for a more leisurely look. Titov, whose 25-hr. 18-min. flight remains the world's record, requested a visa to attend an international space conference that opens in Washington next week. There he may get to meet a fellow space traveler, who is scheduled to talk about his own three-orbit flight: U.S. Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn...
...program for the University's future, have made the President's role in forming policy a crucial one. Yet Mr. Pusey has said no more of this role than that "the recommendations of the committees would have to come to my desk;" he does not propose to attend any of their meetings, nor to take any action to influence the recommendations he will eventually have to read...