Word: exam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard for his annual club dinner. By this time Cynthia was really impatient, so the twentieth was decided upon. Once more procrastination struck, as Dicky, that's John's brother, found he couldn't get down that day because he had to take an entrance exam for Harvard. Cynthia and her mother promptly slated the wedding for the twenty-seventh. John threw a fit, because it seems that the Harvard-Yale boat races are that week-end, and he's never missed once since his graduation...
...Bock attributes most of this development to the rigid inspection required in the Hygiene Building before admittance to Stillman Infirmary and to more frequent contacts between advisers and students. He also cited Dean Gummere's work on admission requirements as being a contributing factor in the decrease of exam cuts...
...hand, it forces the student to view his pre-college training as a series of hurdles to be leapt before he falls into the green pastures of a university. But lo and behold! once alighted he will discover that University Hall urges the mature student, through the general exam and tutorial systems, to see college as another series of jumps, climaxing in one big water hazard at the end. This conception of hurdles, series, and incessant academic strife seems at bottom false, an example of the commercialization of learning, and contrary to the most rational tents of teaching. The student...
...Next Exam April...
Radcliffe girls smoke pipes during the exam period because it's cheaper, and because "we don't inhale," it was learned from usually reliable Shepard Street sources last night...