Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these charges were being prepared and delivered the real issues took second place, although the candidates did present vague, nearly similar programs. Both recognized the central problem: to reduce the city payroll, and to institute sound, efficient accounting and auditing methods...
...committee will present its report to the entire Student Council next week. Council approval will be the first step towards getting the hours changed. A formal petition must then be submitted to Perkins, Secretary of the Master's Council, after which the Master's Council, Faculty Committee on Houses, Administrative Board, and the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences must agree on the revision...
Bradley admits readily that he is far from happy with the present tutorial and advisory system at Penn. "We don't have a tutorial system--it is not consisten with our tradition," he says. But, he adds, "I wish our counselling methods had worked out better. Each incoming freshman gets an academic adviser, who usually becomes his sophomore supervisor as well. The function of the adviser during the first two years is at best loosely defined, and many underclassmen rarely see the men assigned to them. When students begin to concentrate in the junior year, they receive a "major adviser...
Furthermore, the College is concerned with raising its standards. At present a B average allows a student to go for Honors degree, and a C- qualifies an undergraduate to enter a major field of study. Honors concentrators who fall below B- level in their work are reclassified as Pass majors, and candidates for a regular degree cannot remain in their major field if their average falls below C-. Students disqualified from concentration must raise their grades to the required level to gain re-admittance. Bradley calls both minimums--especially the C- requirement--"too low," and he is determined...
Incumbent Charles A. Watson has jumped off and on the CCA bandwagon during his several terms on the Council. At present, he is making loud noises in his opposition to the inner belt route highway that city consultants advised run through the Cambridgeport area from the B.U. Bridge up Brookline...