Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other aspects of Advanced Standing--admission of eleventh graders to the freshman class and admission of qualified secondary school graduates to the sophomore class--Leighton viewed with more qualified approval...
Provisions for course reduction are the "most immediately promising field for the enrichment of the college experience," Dean Leighton has stated in his annual report to President Pusey...
Commenting on the three Advanced Standing programs, Leighton said that he believes the "time has come to encourage more students to break out of the course patterns which now dominate undergraduate education...
...Leighton's report points out that course reduction, in itself, is "not a worthy end, but the spirit of adventure and the possible accomplishments of our more able students set free from the regular four-course pattern to work out projects of their own choosing at their own pace are objectives well worth seeking...
Stressing that the concept of course reduction is not new to the University, Leighton said that in the years 1937-41, when the College was smaller, an average of 91 juniors and seniors participated in the plan each year. He added that the plan met with general approval at that time...