Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ullman emphasized that the Committee is open to all kinds of suggestions, "from the placement of electric sockets to profound philosophical matters." He said all suggestions would be considered in planning the tenth House...
However, students entering Harvard as freshmen cannot do this even if they are granted advanced placement in one or two subjects and do advanced work while undergraduates...
Died. John H. ("Jack") Minds, 92, fullback on the 1894-97 Pennsylvania elevens that won 55 of 56 games, who against Harvard kicked football's first point after touchdown from placement, was the first to make an art of hiding the ball, the first to use the "coffin-corner" kick, became a Walter Camp All-American by scoring 15 touchdowns, two field goals, 27 extra points in 1897, a record that would be impressive even in today's high scoring game; in Philadelphia...
...first of these was the Advanced Placement program, which permitted a student who had done college-level work in three subjects to enter as a sophomore, and to skip two of his required General Education courses. This led, in turn, to a well-founded suspicion that someone in a position of authority thought that General Education courses were more or less interchangeable with other courses and also thought that three college-level courses of any sort could be equated in some way with two General Education courses. The second confusing innovation was the Freshman Seminar program--for suddenly the General...
...much U.S. aid was involved could expose the Kennedy administration to much unnecessary criticism. Thus when reports indicated that 75 per cent of the Indian army was stationed in the punjab on the Pakistani border, away from the Chinese front, Galbraith convinced the Indian generals that a different troop placement was in order...