Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...radical change has been made by a recent action of the Faculty in the plans for admission to Harvard College. This change is a step further in the direction towards making Harvard easy of admittance to the public school student who has not had special training with the passing of Harvard examinations in view. The first step, adopted a few years ago, was in creating a second plan of admission called the New Plan, by which the pupil's school record was taken into account, the pupil having, in addition, to pass four examinations in advanced subjects...
...change now made is in the Old Plan of Admission. Technically expressed it amounts to this: that hereafter instead of requiring 26 "points" for admission, the candidate must pass examinations in studies amounting to 16 1-2 units of school work, except that candidates who present both Elementary Latin and Elementary Greek will be admitted without conditions on 15 1-2 units of school work. In not less than five units a candidate must pass examinations with grades above D. (A "unit" amounts approximately to one-fourth year of school work...
...consideration of the quality of school work in the case of a student who enters with conditions, however, that the plan is most radical. To quote from the official statement of the change...
...changes of importance are included in the modification, just adopted, of the Old Plan of Admission to Harvard College. In the first place, an attempt has been made to foster the study of Greek by requiring one less examination if the candidate offers both elementary Greek and Latin. A change has been made in the nomenclature of the examination system: instead of requiring 26 "points" for admission the candidate must pass in studies amounting to 16 1-2 "units" of school work, a unit amounting approximately to one-fourth year of school work. However, provided the applicant for admission offers...
Some of the persons most actively interested in this plan for giving preliminary performances of promising plays by present and former pupils of Professor Baker before the final working over of the plays for professional production, are: Miss Florence Lincoln, author of the first Craig prize play, "The End of the Bridge"; J. F. Ballard, A.M. '11, author of "Believe Me, Xantippe"; Elizabeth McFadden, author of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander...