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...firmly entrenched Harvard tradition: the written, three-hour final examination. During the next few weeks the CEP will attempt to compile a series of essays on the subject written by a variety of professors and College administrators. Eventually, the essays may be printed in a small booklet, perhaps for public distribution. The CEP project will most certainly result in a searching analysis of the present examination system, and it could lead to an increase in the number of courses offering such alternatives as the final paper or the prepared question...
...hand to help prelates through verbal thickets). Other procedural decisions: Council members will be forbidden to leave Rome without written permission from the presidential council. Clerics who wish to speak on the floor will present written requests to the presiding cardinal, then wait their turn. "Church fathers," the booklet noted, "are requested to limit their speeches to ten minutes...
...teachers' group published its complaints in a booklet sent all over California. It tried to defeat pro-Stanley candidates in a school board election. When this failed, C.T.A. urged all U.S. teachers to boycott the district. As a result, Little Lake's twelve schools (7,800 students) are far short of teachers for next term...
...bitter and continuing argument about the possibility of detecting clandestine bomb tests took a turn last week in favor of the optimists-those scientists who believe a detection network to be feasible. The U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency issued a four-page booklet stating that "there may be substantially fewer earthquakes that produce signals equivalent to an underground nuclear explosion of given yield than had been expected." All by itself, that brief statement represented quite a switch; the Defense Department has usually favored the attitude that secret Russian underground tests could not be distinguished from natural...
...societies. "A central body," he says, "could be a target." To solve the problem of "making it uncomfortable for people to be slovenly" or "telling the Medicine Hat school board what's going on in math teaching," Gardner suggests increased publicity by state education agencies: "One 30-page booklet could lay out everything new in math teaching." Vice President Alvin C. Eurich of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education suggests that every state set up a research commission, financed by one-half of 1% of the state education budget. New York already...