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...proposal that advanced placement students majoring in the Humanities or Social Sciences be allowed to waive the lower level Gen Ed requirement in their field caused sharp disagreement among professors of General Education yesterday...
...annual report to the faculty, delivered last week, Edward T. Wilcox, Director of Advanced Standing in Harvard College, suggested that "the relationship of Advanced Placement to General Education should be reconsidered." Wilcox pointed out that advanced placement concentrators in the Natural Sciences are exempt from the lower level Nat. Sci. requirement, but that advanced concentrators in the Humanities and Social Sciences still have to take an elementary Gen Ed course in their field...
...could get advanced placement examinations in the Humanities and Social Sciences, I would be very much interested in having them replace the required General Education courses," Kenneth B. Murdock '16, chairman of the Committee on General Education, asserted last week...
...possible solution to these problems, Ford suggested that the program might be confined to Freshmen who have advanced placement. These students would then have the option of taking seminars or tutorials in the field in which they have advanced placement. The seminars might be taken in lieu of middle group courses for which advanced placement students are now eligible...
Wilcox called on departments to be more liberal in granting credit toward the concentration requirement for the degree to New Sophomores who earn advanced placement in courses within the department concerned...