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Administratively, the Gen Ed program has gone out of joint as a result of non-departmental programs which have impinged upon its authority and functions. The sophomore standing program now permits ten percent of each entering class to skip the freshman year and, incidentally, to dispense with a large portion of the Gen Ed requirement. The Advanced Standing program, which this year involved 40 per cent of the freshman class, weakens Gen Ed still more by giving students college credit for subjects outside their field of concentration. The Freshman Seminar program, in which more than one-fourth of this year...
...island of Maui, half an hour by plane from Honolulu, which connoisseurs consider the handsomest of the lot. The Hana-Maui Hotel is so revered an institution that some of its affluent guests (like Faithful Vacationer Marshall Field Jr.) arrange to skip Honolulu completely, fly by private plane directly in and out of Maui. Just within the past six months, a first-class championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones has opened, flanked by two new luxury resorts. One is the Royal Lahaina. a 32-cottage settlement and semiprivate club. The new Sheraton-Maui is less expensive but more...
...gets the impression among Young Republican groups-even, although to a lesser degree, at Harvard that many future politicians are not in them; those who will be party leaders may be biding their time in these early years, studying or working, and plan to skip right over...
Hardly any anniversary of the old Bolsheviks passes Pravda by. But it is the custom in Moscow these days to skip the in-between birthdays and mark only the decades. So it was last week that Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev's 69th birthday was totally ignored by the Communist party press. Everyone was waiting until next year, when they could wander down to Red Square and cheer for his Biblical allotment...
...explain his belief that the presence of even a few defective questions will hamper the performance of superior students on the remainder of the examination. On this last point he seems to ignore the possibility that the superior student might recognize the defective question for what it is skip it, and forget about it. All we hear from him is that dire consequences will necessarily befall the student "who loses confidence" in either the integrity or the intelligence of his tester...