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...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 adequate to their task...
Monro pointed out that the average income of the parents of scholarship students has gone up rapidly in the past five years--faster than national norms. "The problem is how to adjust the scholarship program to a new situation in which a family has a five-figure income and still can't pay the bills," he said...
...next few months will be difficult," according to Louis A. Toepfer, Vice Dean of the Law School, "but the school can and will adjust." The awkwardness of the reorganization is accentuated by its coming in the middle of the year, he pointed...
Moreover, the inconsistencies of the Supreme Court's 1959 decision with its opinions on segregation seem likely to become more and more conspicuous. At the same time, supporters of civil disobedience such as Uphaus will have to adjust their news to the idea that this defiance of the Court rests on the same grounds as that of many segregationists. Finally, if New Hampshire is not to repeat the story of Willard Uphaus, to its own national and perhaps international discredit, its leaders and people must cure themselves of their stultifying suspicion of the foreign and unfamiliar...
Wilson also discussed the impact on the novel of the revolutionary changes which have transformed English society in the past 15 years since the end of the war. Almost all contemporary British novelists, Wilson noted, have been faced with the need to adjust to drastic changes in their respective social classes...