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...repetition in a student's transition from secondary school to college. Accordingly, the plan passed in March, 1954, provided that entering freshmen could get full credit for secondary school courses of recognized College level--equivalents of French 20 or Math la, for example. If a "freshman" demonstrated on his placement tests that he had earned three full-course credits in this way, he would immediately gain official sophomore standing and all its privileges, such as freedom from Physical Training and the right to enter a field of concentration. (He would also, presumably, move into a House, but overcrowding currently makes...
Dana Cotton, Director of Placement in the Graduate School of Education, spoke to the group on the "Role of the School's Recommendations." He indicated the problems high school counselors have when alumni in areas far removed from the College are poorly informed about recent policies...
This afternoon, Henry and Dana Cotton, Director of Placement in the Graduate School of Education, will talk on the "Role of the Alumni Interviewer" and the "Role of the School's Recommendations" respectively. In the evening, Dean Bundy will speak to the group at a Boston Harvard Club dinner on "Something about Some Things...
...meeting had been planned by the student placement office...
ALABAMA: Grade F. "Not one of the school boards has made any move to try to work out anything," a top Negro attorney correctly reports. The Alabama state legislature recently enacted a "Placement Bill," over the veto of Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, empowering local school boards to place pupils in schools upon such considerations as "the psychological qualifications of the pupil for the type of teaching and associations involved . . . the possibility of breaches of peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community...