Word: elective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since students elect no coordinated program, vocational or honors or any other, there is a minimum of academic segregation within the school. Probably one of Scarsdale's healthiest features lies in the fact that the honors sections system offers the necessary advanced work for the more qualified yet causes no formal division between the bright and average students in any grade. The whole class is divided into heterogeneous "home room" sections which meet daily for attendance and to discuss student council business...
...girl can elect Modern Living as one of her solids, a half-year course "looking toward marriage, home planning, and learning to use money wisely." Or she might take Advanced Clothing, described in the school catalogue as "a second semester of clothing . . . designed particularly for twelfth grade girls to construct clothing for graduation activities...
...choice of the spiritually minded, 823 to 720, was tall Dana McLean Greeley, 49, minister of Boston's Arlington Street Church. Said President-elect Greeley: "I have never wished to sunder Unitarianism from Protestantism or Christianity, but I am eager to have it serve as a bridge between the Christian and non-Christian worlds, and I am as ready for it to cultivate close relationships wherever opportunity affords with other great faiths, or lesser faiths, as with Christianity...
...Alumni Day exercises at the Medical School, Dr. Rolfe Lium of Rye, N.H., was chosen president-elect of the Medical Alumni Association. He will take office next year. Dr. Charles C. Lund of Chestnut Hill assumed the presidency...
...scored 39 runs, while Dick Carey and Mills each scored 21. Lowe was fifth high scorer with 19 runs, followed by Ali Binns with 5 and John Andrews with 4. Captain-elect John Frith, Donald Shojai, and Philip Higgins had not yet batted when the Crimson declared...