Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corps reported this week that its recruiting drive at Harvard has produced about 20 per cent fewer applicants than did last year's drive. A total of 97 seniors and juniors took the Peace Corps Placement Test and submitted Volunteer Questionnaires during the Corps' one-week visit to Phillips Brooks House, while 125 did the last year...
...Peace Corps Placement Test will be given at 10 a.m. today in the Peabody Room of PBH. This will be the last chance to take the test at Harvard during the recruiting drive...
...encourages the student with advanced placement or standing to view General Education as a unique opportunity rather than as an onerous or childish obstacle...
...major loophole in the existing program and tend to give it the character of an elementary, not to say remedial, requirement, to be avoided if possible. We propose that these students should be required in the future to fulfill the requirements like other students but that they and advanced placement students be allowed (a) to use their awards for pre-college work as the equivalents of nondesignated depart- mental courses in meeting the requirements and (b) to present petitions for individual programs taking their special preparations into account. The relation to the General Education requirements of Freshman (and possible upperclass...
...public is now more in favor of tough, rough standards for those who can take it." Many high schools now require five courses a semester, not four. Hardly a high school exists without some sort of enriched academic program for gifted students. For super-nourishment, students can take advanced-placement exams, which may land them in the sophomore class at college and will at least eliminate the necessity of taking certain freshman courses. In 1955, when the College Entrance Examination Board introduced advanced-placement exams, 12,000 students from 104 U.S. high schools took them; last May 29,000 students...