Word: cep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formation of a CEP sub-committee to study admissions policy reflects the need of both faculty and Administration to decide what sort of student the college should try to educate. The crux of the problem of admissions criteria seems to consist of a choice between the proven scholar and the intelligent "all around" man. There is, of course, room for both, but serious disagreement exists as to the desirable mixture of these types in future classes. The exponents of one position, hold, in general, that Harvard is a place for scholarship, and admissions consideration should thus consider academic achievement...
Franklin L. Ford, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, will take a leave of absence until June 1, Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, announced yesterday. Ford has been appointed chairman of a CEP subcommittee which will review College admissions policy...
...professors, and thus the committee will probably be concerned with academic aspects of admissions policy to a very considerable degree. This part of the admissions problem has become increasingly prominent in recent years with the advent of the advanced standing program and was emphasized by the CEP sub-committee on the Teaching of Natural Sciences in its recently approved report...
Many students drop out of honors not merely because of mere laziness or incompetence; they rebel at the increasing specialization some departments require and in general would like an academic framework which leaves more time for general reading or study. The CEP proposals have tended to produce a polarization of undergraduates into honors and non-honors groups which unfortunately lumps this middle segment of students with scholastic reprobates. It is heartening to see that in the past two weeks plans have been advanced which together contain all the elements needed for a non-honors program which satisfies the needs...
...organization of a strong non-honors program transcending departmental lines is a necessary complement to the CEP's honors program, Such a non-honors plan would be a major step in encouraging a large segment of undergraduates to seek the benefits of a tutorial program in addition to eliminating the increasingly sharp bifurcation of honors and non-honors students...