Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final report will be submitted to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for approval on Feb. 16. It will probably include the Committee's recommendations on such matters as admitting students to the College before their last year in secondary school, on the giving of advanced placement or actual course credit for secondary school work, and on the admission of exceptionally qualified students directly as sophomores...
...second is possible improvements in the placement system to insure that entering students are taking courses that are as far advanced as possible. Recent reports indicate that many freshmen duplicate work already done in secondary school instead of starting with courses that tax their ability and experience...
...years. But as one railway unionist warned: "They'll always be a danger, even if there are only a dozen of them, because wherever there's a pimple, they'll scratch it into a rash." And it is not so much their numbers as their strategic placement and their high-handed use of power that gave cause for alarm. Comrade Foulkes, had he wanted to, could have called out the entire E.T.C. from every power station, plunging the country into darkness, halting trams and subways, paralyzing docks and factories...
...thousands of Chinese students and refugees now living in the U.S., the mansion in Manhattan's East 60s called China House is more than a meeting place and a touch of home. For the last 2? years, the China Institute in America has also been running a placement bureau, has so far been able to find jobs of various kinds for more than 700 expatriate Chinese. But last week the institute sadly reported that its task has only begun. Of the 6,000-odd refugees, hundreds are aging intellectuals whose plight is desperate and whose talents are going...
Last week the institute's placement department announced a plan by which the U.S. can make use of at least some of this wasted talent. It hopes to raise enough money to place and support 30 intellectuals a year at small colleges that might otherwise be unable to afford the luxury of a foreign professor. So far, 59 colleges have written in to say they would welcome the idea. Meanwhile, the institute's list remains a roster of tragedy: a onetime embassy charge d'affaires who now works as a clerk in a garment district storehouse...