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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCCEP might well have trained its guns on the real weak spot of the program--the Advanced Placement tests. Opinion is almost unanimous that these examinations, taken in the spring of senior year in high school, are ridiculously easy. While of course they cannot show a student's emotional preparedness or his ability to adjust to House life, these tests in many cases do not even measure academic competence effectively. Much of the scholastic difficulties that Sophomore Standing students encounter--and apparently these are what the Committee was largely concerned with--might disappear if the Advanced Placement tests were more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Operation Abolition | 3/27/1961 | See Source »

...some naive quarters, the mistaken belief is held that spring is here. This is a misleading doctrine and the adherents of it are guilty of perhaps-handedness, albeit a weak and deviationist variant. Since objective meterological evidence clearly proves that spring is not here and cannot ever be here, the belief that it is spring constitutes a victims and criminal act whose divisive influence all students are urged to combat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Foolish Error | 3/25/1961 | See Source »

...required to carry. The doctor wrote out a message: Tea and Mineral Water. "Keep the patient in bed with absolute rest. Apply linseed poultices continuously on the swollen jaw. Give intramuscular injection of 500,000 units of penicillin combined with half gram of streptomycin morning and evening. Give only weak tea, orange juice, mineral water for 24 hours." After two days the Henri G. reported: "Patient seems better this morning. Yesterday evening pulse go fever 102 this morning pulse 70 temperature 98.6.'' More exchanges followed. Finally the Henri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Help of Sea | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Nine out of every ten public officials in Massachusetts are dedicated public ," McCormack declared. "But in this state if one is weak, the rest are concerned weak." Although admitting that hearings by Judge Charles E. Wyzanski '27, revealed corruption in state government McCormack charged that in the public "every public official in the state has been indicted and convicted by Wyzanski." Popular cynicism toward public servants is deep-rooted, McCormack implied. the Cambridge City Council authors the sale of part of the Cambridge for John B. Sullivan's "stilts," that as far as Cambridge were concerned, "every elected of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCormack Raps Image Of Corruption in Politics | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

During his competition post that he finally won, night editors said of him: not have a weak story on Most Important of all, he top of his paper all evening was no wild running newsroom last night, no ..Another DLH memorial For anyone who has even acquaintance with 14 this is quite an achievements...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Now, Another | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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