Word: exam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leeway for passing in work ordinarily done at preparatory school is two years, and the pass-word is a C in one of the adequate courses or a good grade for an exam given three times a year. Thus for two years the axe of probation is sheathed while the student is presumed to be taking the courses he needs. If there is another year of grace given and if the student's work fails to pass the exam a third time, he must clutter up his Senior year with an elementary language. If there are to be language requirements...
...should the fine expansion of the talks stop the growth of other aids to Unionists. The Committee cannot rest after one step with a long ladder yet to go. Special effort will be needed to awaken exam reviews from the coma they entered following last year's disappointment, and many parts of the Confidential Guide will be dropped or changed. Nor must the proctors feel any less needed for advice now that their charges are given official pictures of future courses. The Union Committee's program is a happy addition to first year guidance and not a substitute...
Trickling back like a slow-running, twinkling stream, come post-exam stories that fill the student's cup brimming full once again. One senior of no inconsiderable reputation, in particular, had sipped of the dregs of examination life and found them bitter. He determined to seek out the bright lights of a large metropolis to the south, second only to the Hub itself...
...Harvard boys seem to have acquired an ability to do gracefully that which they should not ," smilingly observed Eugenia Rawis as she observed several exam-worm specimens toying with cooling refreshments in the Ritz bar last night. "They are just too, too . . . ." but the Jane of "Pride and Prejudice" current at the Colonial left that up to the imagination and became more serious...
Then after a period of about three weeks to a month the books are returned to students with comments by the instructors. The final exam books are kept for a period of a year and then can be obtained by students...