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...electronic computer won another small battle in its drive to take over Harvard College Friday, as a human error in programming led to a of the Spanish placement test results for 25 freshmen...
Convenient Deaths. Fortune and a delicate skill in personnel placement did wonders for his position: both his teacher, Vouet, whom he was to replace as dean of Parisian artists, and an early rival, Eustache Le Sueur, conveniently died. Sighed Le Brun: "Death has relieved me of a thorn in the foot." Astutely, he promoted a French Academy in Rome, and with characteristic magnanimity dispatched his chief surviving Paris rival, Charles Errard, to be its rector...
...some, an intermediate language course provides needed training for the College Entrance Examination Board's Advanced Placement Examinations. For others, there is an opportunity to study intensively in a field of special interest...
Included in the program is work with 100 boys from the Lyman School for Boys. The boys have either fulfilled their sentences or have been voluntarily placed in the School by their parents. These "placement cases," between the ages of eight to thirteen, are "over-disciplined" by the rigorous training given them at the School, Clifton said...
...report based on the statements of college placement officers, the Department said that job opportunities in the sciences and in engineering are especially plentiful this year. Aerospace and chemical firms have been particularly energetic in recruiting graduating seniors...