Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brighter students from the ninth grade on. The school curriculum has included "honors" sections for more than twenty years, and the able student has the chance to do more concentrated work in English, Mathematics, American and World History, and foreign languages. In addition, a full program of Advanced Placement courses is available for qualified senior. These courses cover material equivalent to what an introductory college treatment of the field would include, and successful completion of an Advanced Placement course counts for credit at some colleges. These courses probably provide the most rewarding academic high school experiences for the pupils...
Responding to the national cry for more science education, Scarsdale has instituted a modified summer school session for those who want to take advance biology, physics, or chemistry. Because there is not enough time to take a full Advanced Placement course in any of these subjects in one year, students take the elemntary portions over the summer to qualify for the higher-level courses during the regular term...
...Advanced Placement courses approximate college-level work with varying success. Because of expenses of buying books (a public school does not require students to purchase their books), the Advanced Placement History section is confined too closely to a text for its readings. The English class, however, gives conscientious students a workout which matches that of lower level Harvard Humanities course. In 1955-56, one third of the year was spent on drama and the work centered around a theme once known to freshmen here as "Ideas of Good and Evil in Western Literature." During the winter, poetry, essays...
Small Scalpels. No man living knows more about cornadas (horn wounds) than Don Luis Gim& #233;nez Guinea. He has written the book, classifying them according to the placement and type of horn-blunt or sharp, wide or narrow-spaced, projecting high or forward. Among the worst are wounds caused by splintered horns, which usually fan out in at least three directions, destroying a wide area of tissue...
Under the new plan, all Anthropology concentrators will participate in Sophomore tutorial, and, if able to meet necessary requirements, will receive more individual instruction in their Junior and Senior years. An examination at the end of the Sophomore year will be one of the major prerequisites for honors placement...