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William overcomes all the stumbling blocks created for men raised in mining districts. His father tutors him for a scholarship exam to go to a better grammar school in order to escape the treadmill of working class education. He attends a military school at the age of 14, already a "sowjer" and at 18 enlists for 21 years...
...stage." This year Ann B. Spence, assistant dean of the College, will probably bring up the 91 budget at the January CHUL meeting before it has been finally approved. Yet even this concession leaves problems unsolved. "Spence will bring up the budget in January this year, but that's exam time, and also the time when the new CHUL members are taking office, so it'll be hard to give it a close look," Paul Wang '78, the Currier House CHUL representative, says...
...students who are malingering and those who are really sick, which UHS physicians say they are reluctant to try to do on their own. No one has any concrete proposals yet for a policy that will take the weight off UHS, but chances are they will--before the January exam period...
Students may not agree with Fox that everyone who gets a medical excuse is really sick. Last spring, a new phrase entered undergraduate vocabulary: "punting," or postponing an exam until the make-up date, in the hope they will do better if they take it at a time when they don't have to worry about other courses...
...predicts a return of riot police or tear gas. A citywide Parent Advisory Council established by Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. has done much to defuse race tension. Another worry is low test scores. The national median on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 429 on the verbal exam, 471 for math. Boston's white students are scoring 445 on the verbal and 464 on the math, blacks 331 on verbal, 339 on math...