Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This leaves the student pretty much on his own, and if he has three time-consuming courses or a big outside activity, he may let his project slide. Many students have regretted the lack of direction in the program, but Harlon P. Hanson '46, director of Advanced Standing, is not too much distressed. He says, "Intellectual worth can be derived from a slackening of pace. Too many people here are tying their shoelaces while they...
...Hanson C. Robbins...
...well prepared student has the option then of eliminating either the last year of high school or the first of college. As Hanson notes the former law of twelfth grade admission into the freshman year of college has outlived its sanctity, and the program to be followed depends "essentially on what seems most profitable to the students...
Following the faculty decision "to admit students of superior achievement and maturity who have completed the eleventh grade of secondary school," five high school juniors enrolled in the fall of '55. According to Hanson there is nothing extraordinary about them and all are doing well with group III averages or better. Four eleventh graders were admitted this fall; and while this number may increase somewhat, the Committee feels it will be kept small both because of the small number of qualified high school juniors and a desire to preserve the traditionally large proportion of freshman who have completed twelfth grade...
While it was also originally intended that sophomore move right into a house, the 13 are living in the Yard this year, since they did not get their class status until after school began in September. While Hanson personally recommended moving into a house right away, F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of freshman, feels that living in the Yard for the first year has its advantages even for advanced standing sophomores, since it "takes the rough edges off" new students and acclimatizes them to the atmosphere of a large university...