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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1954, when 81 high school seniors took 130 of the old School and College Study Examinations and no one received Sophomore Standing, the number of A.P. candidates has quadrupled and the total of exams presented has increased six-fold. According to director Edward T. Wilcox, the program is still growing, and "no ceiling is in sight...
...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...
...Radcliffe, one might also say that the number of A.P. Sophomores is increasing, since three girls managed to accumulate the necessary three credits for the first time this year, and were admitted to the 'Cliffe as Sophomores. One reason why only three have taken the proffered advancement seems to be lack of publicity, although this defect is rapidly being remedied. More-over, educators are not always in a hurry to expedite young ladies' schooling. The headmistress of a Midwestern girls' school says, "Girls are not going into careers right after college, the way boys...
...fact is that excellence tends to breed excellence, and for this reason a long string of individual stars have come to Harvard over the years, giving Harvard an often spectacular top five as well as an astonishing number of National Intercollegiate Champions. Until Yale's fine victory this winter, Harvard was the only college ever to win the National Team Championship--ten times--and in the past few years the names Ufford, Heckscher and Sears emphasize Harvard's striking dominance...
...Crimson will field an almost complete team for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League individual championships, beginning today at New Haven. There is no team contest, since that was determined during regular season dual-meet competition, but the Yale swimmers figure to capture a considerable number of first-place medals. Every Ivy League college except Brown, plus Army and Navy, will enter competitors...