Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite these factors, Wilcox predicted that the number of advanced standing students will continue to increase each year, as it has since 1955 when the first two students were awarded sophomore standing. He noted, however, that the number of students who receive advanced placement is one or two subjects has begun to level...
...drop in the number of 'Cliffies accepting sophomore standing is "just a standard yearly fluctuation." More girls were eligible for advanced standing this year than last, however, "Entering students are much better prepared each year," she said, "but this fact is not always reflected in advanced standing and advanced placement figures...
...electronic computer won another small battle in its drive to take over Harvard College Friday, as a human error in programming led to a of the Spanish placement test results for 25 freshmen...
After error in "gang-punching" the conversion of raw test scores, 25 of the 150 freshmen taking the Spanish placement test last Wednesday were informed incorrectly that they had fulfilled their language requirement. The Office of Tests will notify these freshman today that they had actually, in the harsh and cold statistical world of the computer, failed their tests...
Convenient Deaths. Fortune and a delicate skill in personnel placement did wonders for his position: both his teacher, Vouet, whom he was to replace as dean of Parisian artists, and an early rival, Eustache Le Sueur, conveniently died. Sighed Le Brun: "Death has relieved me of a thorn in the foot." Astutely, he promoted a French Academy in Rome, and with characteristic magnanimity dispatched his chief surviving Paris rival, Charles Errard, to be its rector...