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...would like to take this opportunity of alleviating the severity of Professor B. J. Whiting's quoted figure of 60 per cent passing English 115 (at mid-year). In fact, 68 per cent obtained a grade of 0 or higher. What he did not mention was that 52 per cent of the class received honor grades. Stanley J. Kahrl '53, Teaching Fellow In English...
Students who have had two or more years of a language in high school can meet the language requirement by scoring 560 on the College Board tests, by passing one year of an intermediate language course, or by scoring 560 on the University placement test which is given at mid-year by the intermediate courses as a part of their exam...
Juniors taking Ec 98 will be the first undergraduates to face an oral test in an Honors field during the coming mid-year examinations. The "experiment," under the direction of the Economics Department, is an effort to gauge the "real thinking process" of a student, according to Werner Baer, instructor in Economics...
Under Bruner's proposal, about 15 per cent of Freshmen would have an opportunity at mid-year to enter special sections in one of their large introduction courses, to be directed by an "experienced" Faculty member. In the special section, or "workshop," as Bruner calls it, students would do both accelerated course work and independent research. After Freshman year, students would continue various workshops until graduation, taking only three regular courses. These later would be independent from courses, and would "prepare the student for his senior theses...
Carl D. Elligers '62, of Weld Hall and Brooklyn, N.Y., and Michael S. Ashman '62, of Brookline, have received the Carl Schurz and Elizabeth Wilder prizes respectively for the Freshmen who pass with the highest grades the mid-year examination in elementary German...