Word: cp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still one which the sub-freshman will do well to take steps to avoid. His chances of getting one of the really good section men are not great, and it would be well if the whisper still flew about the preparatory school quadrangles that seventy-five percent in English Cp. 4 outclasses ninety-five in any other subject as far as actual value received is concerned...
...stated that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the College had just voted that a grade of 70 percent in the admission examination in Advanced German or French, known on College Board Examinations as German or French cp 4, be accepted in satisfaction of the reading knowledge requirements in those languages. This new ruling, following immediately upon the Faculty decision of last year to count advanced German or French toward entrance requirement, will permit students to pass off their requirement without having to take one of the special examinations or a half-course in either German or French...
...decision of the faculty to place the advanced French and German examinations of the College Entrance Board on equality with Latin Cp 4 as a satisfaction of the language requirements logically rounds out the recent acceptance for entrance credit of a fourth year at school of a modern language. A slow moving policy of freeing the undergraduate years from most elementary work is thus advanced. And the path of those who are prepared is cleared of the annoying obstacle of a reading examination or college course in a foreign language...
...change in the present language requirements the new rule cannot but lead to a different situation for men in college. For some time a reading knowledge of Latin has been accepted in place of one of the two modern languages, and in fulfillment of this the Cp 4 admission examination has been accepted in place of the reading knowledge test in college. Now that four years of French or German can be offered before admission, a logical step would permit all the reading knowledge requirements to be anticipated by good grades in the Cp 4 examinations...
...Ellison '28, g., F. A. Pickard '29, p: H. M. Hartnett '30, cp. R. I. Hatch '28, Id., S. P. Park '29, 2d., O. F. Hatch '28, 3d., C. D. McQuaid '28, c. Drien 3a: Glenn, fa. Captain J. R. Lane '28 la: A. M. Murphy '29, ch, Wallace...