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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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...
...student who can amass enough learning to get Advanced Placement in three courses is often one with widespread interests. Not all A. P. students get advancement in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics; some get it in Mathematics, American History, and French. Thus, a boy with enough interest in widely separated areas to take stiff, advanced classes in all of them must almost immediately make up his mind to forsake two of them. One of the greatest benefits of Freshman year is that it can give an opportunity to consider the problem of devoting one's self to a single area...
Fats in cells will be the subject of research by Robert P. Geyer, associate professor of Nutrition, with a grant of $14,498, while Robert S. Chang, assistant professor of Microbiology, will continue genetic research with an award of $6,172. Paul C. Zamecnik, Collis P. Huntington Professor of Oncologic Medicine, received $4,715 for cancer research...
...P. Knowles '61, who also visited the University of Massachusetts, described the college as "academically not comparable to Radcliffe." The college emphasizes the importance of fraternities and sororities, to which 50 per cent of the students belong, Miss Knowles explained...