Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since California has the most elaborate junior-college system in the country, the university is able to require that applicants have a B average in high school. But in such states as Oregon, where junior col leges are rare, many educators have begun to worry about what the tidal wave of students will do to their schools unless admissions standards go up. "It seems to me," says Chancellor John Richards of the state higher education system, "that if the weight of numbers of students threatens college instructional quality, then it is our clear obligation to control the numbers." Adds President...
Goodbye, Loafer.No matter how much U.S. higher education expands or how many junior colleges the nation builds, there will still be casualties, because the admissions standards of most colleges are bound to keep rising. But to Headmaster Lloyd M. Clark of Pennsylvania's Kis kiminetas Springs School, the big competition for education is not a crisis but a cause for rejoicing. "This change at the admissions office," says he, "has altered the atmosphere all over the campus. In the classrooms the professors can insist on high achievement levels and dismiss the loafer . . . The time has come when the college...
...bride of Christ, the church has no business to dabble in politics." he told the Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce. "If the state is not to exercise an)' form of control over the church, the church is not to exercise any form of control over the state...
...sense, this sounds like the thesis, but it is different in two respects: first, it would have to eliminate conflicting commitments during the intensive period of production; and it should be available in sophomore and junior, as well as senior, years, to all students, not merely honors candidates. Certainly scope and subject would be less ambitious in the second and third years than in the senior year, but one has only to look at the average College Board scores and I.Q. ratings to know that almost any student admitted to Harvard is capable of undertaking more than one challenging independent...
Awards of honors would be made by each department on the basis of the thirty-three formal half-courses completed (thirteen in the freshman year, including General Education Ahf; eight in the sophomore and junior years, four in the fall term of the senior year); the average of grades on the thirty-five thousand words devoted to his field and the ten thousand to distribution; and his showing on the general examination...