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Hopefully, the forthcoming booklet will serve as an impetus to further discussion of examination philosophy and policy. The CEP has emphasized that the study has not been undertaken with the intention of making professors conform to any "ideal" standard for examinations, but it does hope that the results of the symposium will be suggestive and informative...
...material inscribed with some of the words on the painting to which the Confederates so greatly object. If anything is distasteful to certain groups within the state, requests have been made for its removal whether this unfavorable object be a person, painting, or written article. Should history and art conform to the wishes of these people simply because they do not approve...
...hoped that the report will influence thinking about examinations on the level of the individual teacher. The study is not intended to make professors conform to an "ideal" type of examination, but to encourage them to think creatively about the tests they give...
...gallon (277.4). The government bill abolishes entirely the linear measurement, beloved of school textbooks, known as rod, pole or perch, a 5 ½yd. unit based originally on the combined length of the left feet of 16 men. The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform to international standards, and in five years it will also abolish pennyweight, scruple and drachm...
...First standardized by Henry I (1100-1135), who made it conform to the distance between his nose and outstretched right thumb...