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...added that if the University adopted plan similar to Yale's, it would be run by the Student Placement Office...
Beckwith relaxed so much that he whipped the widely-heralded advanced placement sophomore Al Albright and turned at the best broad jump by a Harvard man in several years-23 ft., 3 in., a new Harvard Briggs Cage record...
...trial lawyer in Virginia. His major legal monument is a series of important decisions in 1957 and 1958 that led to token integration of Norfolk's public schools. With unfailing sympathetic words. Judge Hoffman ruled in case after case that Virginia's much-imitated pupil-placement system-a Governor-appointed state board with sweeping powers to locate students in specific schools-was an evasive effort to keep schools segregated. In February 1959, Norfolk gave up, assigned eight Negro pupils to white schools...
...Department is limiting the size of the course, Westheimer explained, because of its experimental nature and in order to allow selection of a homogeneous class of well-prepared students. Selection will be made during Orientation Week on the basis of College Board and Advanced Placement Test results...
First, he said, a majority of such candidates come from Eastern schools such which already sends the College a large number of students with balanced placement in three or more subjects. Wilcox predicted that in the sure the number of candidates from schools would probably remain at present levels...