Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate men of Harvard, only thirty-five of them enjoy the advantages of the Advanced Placement program. That means only one out of every 125 Harvard students is able "to cover areas of his field not touched by formal courses and to delve deeper, by intensive reading, into his field than he might do in a normal program of study," as one of the fortunate few has put it. There may be things wrong with the Advanced Placement--Course Reduction program, but certainly its greatest defect now is just its smallness. Few administrators would say only one of every...
...Advanced placement and course reduction should not be reserved for geniuses who are held back by the course system or for budding scholars who have their life's work in medieval history already planned out; the program should be opened up to greater numbers of relatively undistinguished students who want to avail themselves of its benefits, especially in replacing courses with independent study in junior and senior years. Effectiveness of the program is directly related to the number of students participating...
...best thing that the Office of Advanced Standing can do right now for their Advanced Placement--Course Reduction program is to publicize it. The reason there are not many applications is that many qualified students are only vaguely aware of the existence of such an office and of so beneficial a program. Madison Avenue techniques aren't necessary, but an office so new and unprecedented should not rely on a paragraph or two in some University pamphlet to bring its services to the students' attention...
John E.Ratte '57 of Lowell House and Lawrence, Mass., Charles P. Segal '57 of Leverett House and Dorchester, Mass., and Robert H. Secrist '57 of Lowell House and Juneau, Alaska, have received the scholarships, according to Thomas E.Crooks '49, Director of Student Placement, who administers the awards on the college level here...
...started in Spring, 1956, when the magazine tried to print two cartoons that the administration found objectionable. One depicted a prostitute with the caption "I got my job through the Brooklyn College Placement Office." The other showed a Greenwich Village cafe--identified by name--with a sign reading "No Men--No Women." Thomas E. Coulton, Dean of Student Life, chanced to see a copy of the issue before distribution. Acting under his "emergency powers," the Dean impounded Landscapes, calling the cartoons "salacious" and "libelous." The magazine was reprinted without the cartoons and distributed in that form...