Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burke '70, one of the four students who spoke with Huntington, said that they changed their demand because there was not enough time for the faculty to drop the exam. The faculty will meet on Monday, which is the first day of the four-day take-home junior essay exam. Huntington will present the petition, along with a statement from the students asking that the essay's influence be lessened...
...faculty has already decided to eliminate the junior essay starting next year. "The general feeling of the department was that doing away completely with the essay would take considerable restructuring of Gov 98," Huntington said, explaining why the exam was not eliminated this year...
Students have asked to have it dropped this year because events of the first weeks of April made the four days in reading period more necessary for catching up on lost studying time. They also feel that the essay has been discredited since the faculty has decided not to give it again...
Because of the lost time, many tutors have told their tutees in advance the questions they are submitting for the essay. Other students have complained that the exam will now be unfair because some people will be better prepared than others, although all of the essays will be graded by the same committee, none of whose members are tutors...
Huntington said that he sent letters to tutors on Monday asking how much their students knew about the question in advance. "It was not to check up on the tutors--there was some misunderstanding about the junior essay this year," Huntington said. The grading committee will be able to tell whether the student walked in cold or if he was prepared," he added...