Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge the full cost of the tests to students would seriously damage the program; the average student may pay thirty dollars for his tests under the present program; a charge of a hundred would simply prevent many of them from taking any tests. Because the program is of immense benefit to the colleges, both by reducing pressure on introductory courses and by giving schools a real incentive to offer advanced courses, it seems reasonable that the colleges should pay at least part of the costs...
...would be unwise, however, to transfer operational duties to the college. One of the great attractions of the present program is that it gives a standard, both of grading and of content, which shifts duties from college departments to the central testing organization. The avoidance of grading has been a major reason for departmental acceptance of the A.P. program...
...vital that the A.P. program should be continued; its expansion is a healthy contribution to inspiring high academic ideals in the schools, and it helps to make the college curriculum challenging and interesting to well prepared students. Colleges and schools may find that sacrifices are necesary in order to make their contribution to the program, although as Advanced Placement is presently divided among colleges, the richest would make the largest--yet comparatively modest--contributions. They should recognize, however, that whether or not a student derives monetary benefit from the tests by his course exemptions, he is usually in no position...
...just had two poorly organized five-year plans, she explains, and is about to develop a third. "There is no reason why a Marshall Plan Commission couldn't be set up to help the next plan," she says, and thereby help develop a better organized and potentially more successful program. "As neighbors, this is what we ought to do--not wait until there is a crisis, and then decide what we would do about it. When I think of how fat, of how comfortable we are, I think I see the writing on the wall...
Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky will read "Howl and Other Poetry" at 8 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. The program will be sponsored by the Harvard Poetry Forum and the Law School Forum...