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...proposal to offer sophomore standing to students who receive advanced placement in three or more courses is still much debated. Though some faculty members seemed to favor the provisions to eliminate course requirements for qualified students, men like J. Douglas Bush, professor of English and member of the policy committee, spoke strongly against giving these students actual sophomore standing...
...Faculty will have ample grounds for argument today when the Educational Policy Committee presents its report. Stimulants for debate are the controversial proposals for advanced standing, a new placement policy, and course reduction. The proposed plan has been hailed as the most significant academic change since General Education; yet, interestingly enough, the College has tried each proposal in one form or another sometime in the past century and a quarter...
Although Lowell discouraged the policy of permitting men to enter as Sophomores or higher on the basis of tests, the use of exams for advanced placement in specific courses continued. The announcement in 1921 that the College would give credit for by-passed courses only at the end of the senior year, and then only after a thorough study of each case, stifled any undergraduate hopes of loafing through the last year. And instead of great mobs applying for the optional tests, there were only one or two yearly inquiries. After continued disuse and general lack of interest the Faculty...
...plan, providing for the admission of exceptional students as sophomores, and proposing a broad new placement system, was drawn up by the Policy Committee composed of 11 professors, and headed by Dean Bundy...
...five major points covered in the report, there are two which are almost certain to be criticized. The first is the proposal that students who receive advanced placement in three or more courses be admitted directly as sophomores. This would allow certain students to graduate in three years instead of four...