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After graduating from the Groton School in 1954, Henry R. Breck ’58 spent the next year traveling in Europe and “doing all the things young guys do” before he applied to college...
Wanting to graduate with his peers in 1958, Breck wrote to Harvard and to Yale asking if he could get a year’s credit for his studies of French and German languages and history...
...Yale said that, ‘we think the process of emotional maturity is furthered by a full four years,’” Breck recalls...
...luckily for Breck, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences had just approved a Program of Special Standing, giving qualified students the option to skip freshman year and enroll in the College as sophomores. Breck was chosen to be the first guinea...
...Breck says that he was granted credit in German after approaching Hanson in fall 1955 and discussing a German newspaper with him for about five minutes. Having spent a year across the ocean, Breck says, “I spoke much better German than...