Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early college consideration possible, early student application would also be necessary. Admissions officials point out that many applications come in early anyway; students could continue to decide when they would apply. Yale, for instance, handled a thousand voluntarily early applications last fall in an experimental admissions program. With early exam scores and applications, all colleges could begin their weeding out processes in September, and continue in the spring. They would thus alleviate their mammoth blue-form burden in April...
Approval of the national exam program will greatly simplify the present methods of admitting students the present methods of admitting students with advanced standing--now done individually by interested secondary schools...
...result of a tour of the House libraries taken by Reynolds and Lamont Librarian Phillip J. McNiff, officials are no longer saying "no" categorically when pressed to extend Lamont hours during exam period. They now are willing to "approach the problem from a rational viewpoint and counter our arguments," Reynolds said...
Reynolds has been able to point out to McNiff that House libraries are inadequate for late exam period studying. During the coming few weeks McNiff and Reynolds will present their findings to the Faculty Library Committee, which will attempt a solution of the problem...
Reynolds will demonstrate to the Library Committee that the University's failure to make special provisions for Lamont during exam period would be like the Post Office not making special arrangements during the Christmas rush season for extended hours, deliveries, and postmen...