Word: priore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful, the most distinguished undergraduate college in the United States." Screening would be harsh; only the top half of the 2,400 students now in the college would qualify for admission under the proposed system. Says Educator Chamberlain: "Preference should be given to the applicant who has completed, prior to entrance, four years of mathematics and science, who can read a foreign language, and whose command of English is demonstrated . . . These courses can be efficiently taught and learned in secondary school, and the time of the college student can be used more profitably on other subjects if he enters college...
...taking courses in the century in which his thesis falls. But since the first draft of the thesis in to be completed by December, no course taken in Senior year can have very much bearing on it, and students will want to take courses relevant to their special area prior to starting work on the thesis. The alternatives, again, are either to be badly prepared for the extremely crucial orals, or else to take a disproportionate number of courses in an extremely limited area...
...course, Pennsylvania deserves much credit for producing some very good football on Saturday. Prior to the game, the Quakers had been reported in rather bad shape--both physically and in terms of team morale. Right from the start, however, their play belied these rumors...
...publishers Thursday obtained a temporary injunction from U.S. District Court here prohibiting the Post Office Department from interfering with distribution prior to a hearing on the mailability issue...
...many a secondary school, for example, we heard that the boys would study Saturday night rather than spend the evening socializing. UCI students told of night-long cram sessions extending for several days, before they took their equivalent of the College Boards. And these sessions are standard procedure prior to any UCI exam. Failing a course may mean expulsion if a re-exam is not quickly passed...