Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which a course system for 4,500 students can impose on the more qualified individual. From the Office of Advanced Standing upstairs in University Hall, director Harlan P. Hanson coordinates the four loosely connected plans which make up the program. Each of its facets, early admission, sophomore standing, advanced placement, and course reduction, is intended to contribute to a more challenging program for the student...
...record number of companies conducted interviews at the Office of Student Placement during 1956-57, Thomas E. Crooks '49, director, reported yesterday...
...modern college student may be faced with a choice between becoming "a whole man" or a specialist, Thomas E. Crooks '49, Director of Student Placement, told a freshman class meeting on fields of concentration Saturday...
Fulbright Scholarships have been awarded to Kurtz and Stearns, according to Thomas E. Crooks '49, Director of Student Placement and chairman of the College Fulbright Committee. Kurtz will study Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, and Stearns plans to study French History at the University of Lyons...
...educate certain students, but are created for that purpose, and when a plan is devised that will educate certain students better, no inherent good in the course system remains for them. Obviously even a greatly expanded program of courseless study could not destroy the department's function; the advanced placement program should be looked on as a supplementary means of better suiting undergraduate study to the individual, not as a contending educational ideology. If Advanced Placement were expanded to effective proportions it could be one of the most fruitful curricular advancements in many years...