Word: leveler
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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...
This is not to say that their feat is any the less imposing; now, as in 1955, Advanced Placement Sophomores must hace satisfactory completed at least three college-level courses during their senior year in secondary school. Usually, passing performances on the College Board Advanced Placement Examinations, given in 11 fields, will ensure accreditation. In four areas--Chemistry, Physics, French, and Spanish--either an honors grade or a further examination tendered by the College is needed for Advanced Placement...
...Sophomores come from only ten private and ten public schools. This is a surprisingly small number of institutions, in view of the 115 secondary schools resented by A. P. applicants. Too many schools, Wilcox explains, fail to realize that a capable senior can handle three college-level courses. Some limit their seniors to one or two such classes, eliminates any possibility of Sophomore Standing. In addition, many high school teachers think advanced courses are merely intensive duplication of the usual fare, rather than presentations of new material. Wilcox expects the present reluctance to "push" promising students to disappear...
...nine-man team level, despite the loss of captain Charlie Hamm, Pete Lund, Davis, and Wally Stimpson, the Crimson will probably retain its mastery. In brief, things should be back fairly close to normal next year at Hemenway Gymnasium, with only an individual champion lacking to make Harvard domination complete; this past season may have been the closest thing to a balance of power that Intercollegiate squash will see for quite some time...
Charles Willson Peale, portraitist, scientist and revolutionary idealist, had the same expansive spirit as his good friend Thomas Jefferson. He raised his children to be geniuses, saw them more or less painfully sink to the level of ordinary men and women. Young Raphaelle found solace, as he sank, in parlor games, ventriloquism, a pretty shrew of a wife, his art, and the bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical...