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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilcox's largest concern about the A. P. program has been that students might take advanced classes in high school, reject Advanced Placement, and then settle for grinding out A's in college courses they had in effect already taken. Of course, men with full Sophomore Standing can not do this: their promotion is contingent upon credits received for their advanced work in high school. A student with A.P. in one or two courses, however, is under no compulsion to avoid repetition. So far, though, virtually no one has used his accelerated training for mere grade advantage: this academic honesty...
Four Faculty scientists have received research grants totaling $89,719 from the American Cancer Society. The largest amount, $64,000, was awarded to Howard H. Hiatt '46, associate in Medicine, for a study of cell control mechanisms...
...those who scorn Vermont as too sophisticated or too far away, there is Wildcat Mountain, New Hampshire's largest new ski development, which opened a year ago December...
Asserting that the proposal had interested a New York developer, "one of the largest developers in the country," he said the proposal had been submitted for consideration by the M.I.T. board which had "turned thumbs down...
...Josephine Bay, 58, largest stockholder in American Export Lines and chief of its executive committee, was named chairman of the board, succeeding Joseph A. Thomas, 52, who resigned. Widow of Financier-Diplomat Charles Ulrick Bay, Josephine Bay took over the business affairs of her husband after his death in 1955, became the first woman to reach a top Wall Street post when she became president and chairman of A. M. Kidder & Co., Inc. Now married to Oilman C. Michael Paul, who succeeds her as executive committee chief, she is the first woman to hold a major post in the shipping...