Word: exemption
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Unfortunately for both Harvard and the General Education program, little is likely to come of Professor Murdock's recent expression of interest in Advanced Placement exams to exempt students from General Education courses. The compromise between "liberal education" and a modified distribution requirement which is the foundation of the General Education program is so uneasy that any attempt to disturb it will encounter opposition from some quarter, and any sort of exemption would require a revision of basic philosophy...
Last week in Geneva, U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth introduced the modification. This time, the U.S. proposed worldwide ban only on underwater and atmospheric blasts (from ground level up to 31 miles), which are principally responsible for fallout. Exempt from the ban: slight-fallout tests in outer space and underground. The ban would be enforced by eight to ten ground teams strategically located in Russia and by airplane air sampling when necessary. Coupled with this limitation on air and water tests was an invitation to Russia to join the U.S. in renewed underground tests. Object: to determine whether new detection...
...annual report to the faculty, delivered last week, Edward T. Wilcox, Director of Advanced Standing in Harvard College, suggested that "the relationship of Advanced Placement to General Education should be reconsidered." Wilcox pointed out that advanced placement concentrators in the Natural Sciences are exempt from the lower level Nat. Sci. requirement, but that advanced concentrators in the Humanities and Social Sciences still have to take an elementary Gen Ed course in their field...
...governs itself, while turning over all functions that transcend its boundaries, such as defense and foreign relations, to the U.S. The island and the mainland share common citizenship, common money, free movements of persons and goods. Residents of Puerto Rico are subject to some U.S. laws, e.g., the draft, exempt from others, e.g., social security...
Certainly one branch of the University exempt from the charge of overisolation in a stultifying academic community is the Faculty of Design. The courses in the Graduate School of Design and the Department of Architectural Sciences are singular within the University for their orientation towards learning as a process of active participation in original, creative work...