Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophomore standing, early admission and advanced placement center around the better prepared freshmen. Because they have completed college-level courses in high school, some incoming students are able to enter the sophomore class, and a few qualified juniors have been able to skip their last year of high school. The early admission and sophomore standing programs eliminate from high school or college a year which the Office of Advanced Standing feels would be wasteful in educational value...
...order to qualify for advanced standing a student must generally obtain advanced placement in three subjects. At present, besides being able to skip PT, the advanced standing sophomore is released from GenEd Ahf, need take only one lower level general education course, and can satisfy his degree requirements in three years...
...kind of rhythmic logic all his own. There are the same echoes of a distorted reality that characterize Kafka -the sound of church bells (or is it thunder?), snatches of bugles and drums (but what living army ever marched to such a beat?), or a sudden hop and skip, as of a fragmented polka (but no belle ever danced to such measures...
...encourage and stimulate their brighter applicants, Harvard and Radcliffe in 1954 began allowing some to take advanced courses in their first year, gave a few sophomore standing, admitted others after they completed the eleventh grade. They also began letting upperclassmen skip one or two courses and use the time for original work in their chosen fields...
...yesterday's sports page, Dunster's Skip Elsas should have been credited with a pin win over Kirkland's Chuck Donahue in the finals of the House wresling tournament...