Word: placement
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When first-year blocking groups are assigned to their respective houses, the placement process will be completely random, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said yesterday...
Under the previous system of non-ordered choice, the computer placement program attempted to establish an equal gender ratio...
...decided to take the controls off because we want to do it randomly," Lewis said in an interview, noting that the decision to remove the gender controls was actually made by his predecessor, L. Fred Jewett '57, at the same time he made the decision to switch to random placement in the houses...
...Freshman Week long ago, foreign-language placement examinations placed first-years in appropriate, required foreign-language courses. Rarely did secondary-school course-work enable a student to "test out" of a foreign-language study: doing brilliantly on the test meant either entering advanced courses or entertaining the option of starting another language from scratch. Depending on concentration, an undergraduate might find himself or herself continuing in a foreign language, or studying a related one, every term until graduation...
Kuchinad reiterates that the focus of the meet is team placement as opposed to individual performances...