Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first term that gave the Geistgauge more than a tremor was the sudden agreement of three classmates (on December 2) that '66 was a more esthetically pleasing number than '65 or '67. This was a cause of great rejoicing on their part, as two had turned down advance placement and the third had only decided against a year out at the last moment...
There is also great concern for what sort of legacy will be left to Ed School students yet to come. Previous years saw the students inspecting the Library and the placement Office, examining the doctoral program, or confronting the faculty with alternatives to the MAT experience. But there were few attempts at perpetuating these efforts, and if they remain at all, they do so only in the fuzzy memories of a few administrators and the oldest doctoral candidates. Determined that the current student activity will have more lasting effect, many of this year's group are struggling to produce viable...
Rebellion & Innovation. Bradley Walker Tomlin's abstract expressionism (see overleaf) with its mingling of signature brush strokes, does not seem so far removed in its liquid pastel forms from Pop Artist James Rosenquist's more explicit Fruit Salad. Larry Poons's placement of blue spots on a field of gold in Aqua Regia produces a Mexican-jumping-bean effect of afterimage dots; yet he has no more corner on optical effects than Bonnard, whom one young first-nighter enjoyed as "a guy who used phosphorescent, Day-glo paint before the stuff was invented or used...
Learning a language is not easy by any standards. Complaints about the language requirement may often stem from the fact that the study must be carried on at the most difficult level--the elementary one. But students have not found satisfying the requirement by scoring in placement tests extremely difficult--many have passed it, in fact, after one elementary course. Harvard requires only an introduction, not fluency, and if this instruction may lead to further study there is no reason why it should not be considered as important as introduction to Natural Sciences or Humanities. What is wrong with...
Sixty-one returned Peace Corps volunteers did the actual recruiting from Feb. 28 to March 10. This was the first time any Peace Corps recruiting drive had been run completely by returned volunteers, and also the first time that the Corps' Placement Test had been waived...