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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...
...Last week, from Berkeley to Boston, that annual rite of spring called campus recruiting was well under way. And if students like Hartman and Grimm made it sound like a buyer's market-well, it was. "Almost any warm body can get a job," comments M.I.T.'s Placement Director Thomas W. Harrington. This year even more firms are sending out personnel experts to round up bodies for even more jobs than they did in a heavy campaign last year. At the University of Chicago Business School, for instance, 230 companies are recruiting v. 190 last year; so many...
...former Dartmouth number one player and now a third-year law student, reached the finals by dumping Robinson, 3-0, in the semi-finals. Against Hetherington, he held his own in the opening game as the lead see-sawed back and forth to 17-17. Here Hetherington tinned a placement and the game was Hoehn...
...Corps will not require the three-hour Peace Corps Placement Test of any Harvard or Radcliffe applicant this year, because previous scores have been consistently high. Instead it will ask interested students meet with returned volunteers who are studying in Harvard graduate Schools...