Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would also be easy for Harvard to admit a larger proportion of students who have been given the opportunity to reach a very high level of academic achievement in prep schools or very good public schools. But the risk of admitting students of uncertain preparation but promising potential should certainly continue to be taken. On the one hand predictions of future success based on previous preparation and performance is not particularly reliable; moreover such a policy would weaken the healthy effects of geographical distribution...
...that all Houses be served single menus came under strong criticism last night from John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House. Speaking primarily as an alumnus of Dunster and a "deeply devoted" member of the Adams staff, Bullitt said that in both Houses, which have independent kitchens, the high quality of the food plays "a very important part...
...aspects of American public high school education--vocational instruction and the training of low aptitude students--are in need of a "searching examination, city by city and town by town," according to James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus...
Conant spoke on "The Revolutionary Transformation of the American High School" last night before an overflow crowd in New Lecture Hall. His address, the annual Inglis Lecture on Secondary Education, was sponsored by the Graduate School of Education...
...curriculum of almost all public high schools in 1905 was strictly academic," Conant pointed out, but by 1930 the "widely comprehensive high school," due to its offering of many vocational subjects, turned out students "whose only academic credential for college preparation was a high school diploma...