Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guerard confirmed last night that his course would substitute a 3000-word essay for the final exam and termed the procedure "an educationally better thing to do" at present. Guerard explained that the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy has fully discussed the new plan. The group termed it "an experiment," not a change in policy or the start of a trend...
William T. H. Youngren, Teaching Fellow in General Education and head section man of Brower's course, confirmed the report that English 163 would also experiment with an essay instead of a final exam this year. No reasons for the change were given by Youngren or by Brower, who was unavailable for comment last night...
...Department of History's decision to test concentrators on their sophomore tutorial work at the close of sophomore year is basically a wise implementation of the CEP proposals. These called for some sort of essay or general examination which would help qualify students for participation in the honors program with its junior tutorial for credit...
...legal scholars, James W. Hurst and George O. Sayles, have received the James Barr Ames Award, the Law School announced today. The prize, established in 1898, is awarded every four years "for a meritorious essay or book on some legal subject...
...quote from Emerson's essay Compensation seems fitting: "The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side...