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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cumulative records of infractions of bicycle laws will be kept by the Police Department; and, if necessary, repeated offenders may be summoned to court or have their bicycles confiscated for a period of 15 days. Yesterday, McCarthy commented, several girls were stopped two or more times for separate violations.

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: Police Begin Drive To Stop Infractions Of City Bike Laws | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

Phillips Exeter Academy made its study at the suggestion of a member of the Board of Trustees. A committee of four faculty members and the treasurer of the school worked full-time during the summer of 1957. Their conclusion, that Exeter should not go on a full-year schedule, was...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

In addition, Exeter faced two peculiar obstacles, which are perhaps limited to the small group of schools and colleges which enjoy the kind of success Exeter has attained. When a school has 1500 applicants for 250 places, and an educational formula based on multi-million dollar gifts (from the same...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

In addition, since Exeter derives more than a third of its income from a large endowment (higher per student than Harvard University's), experimentation with the curriculum offers minimum financial benefits. If Exeter increased its size and went onto a four-quarter schedule, it would actually lose money (per student...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

Forty years passed before Harvard again considered the idea of a three-year college. In 1949, President Conant requested a full and thorough examination of the entire undergraduate curriculum, to see if a three-year college program were possible.

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

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