Word: hansons
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...fact that the Advanced Standing program, during its 20 months of operation, has studiously avoided stirring up any controversies at all--whether of the 13-year-old or any other variety. This week, for example, every academic Department in the College will receive a letter from Harlan P. Hanson '46, director of Advanced Standing, reminding it that course reduction applications--submitted by concentrators who want to reduce their course load next spring in order to pursue special advanced studies--should be filed by the end of Christmas vacation. And so thoroughly accepted has the idea of Advanced Standing become, that...
Since course reduction projects require no administrative surveillance and produce few tangible results, Hanson cannot say just how successful this aspect of Advanced Standing has been. He does know, however, that the number of students participating in the plan is increasing each semester, and that several Departments have expressed satisfaction by recommending that concentrators continue their outside projects for a second term...
...other subject that should rightly be taught in high school. Yet their present course schedules, despite a leaning toward the sciences, exhibit the usual dilettante variations of the freshman year, and their outside interests are as "normal" as those of any other freshman. Without such well-rounded intelligence, Hanson emphasizes, these students would never have been admitted to the College in preference to regular applicants with an extra year of experience and maturity...
Twenty months after its founding, Harvard's Advanced Standing program is an important and growing concern. It makes news, however, only by continued calm expansion. Advanced Standing, as Hanson puts it, is not a revolutionary program to redesign American education. It is just a feeling that the traditionally fixed grade levels--freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior in high school and college--are not always the best mold for the education of a young American mind...
Griffes: Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Mercury). Gifted U.S. Composer Charles T. Griffes (1884-1920) here gets the first LP of his biggest orchestral effusion. Like his better-known White Peacock (also on this record), it proves him to be the American Delius; the style falls somewhere between French impressionism and German tone poems...