Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing a final exam is thoroughly a one-way proposition. You never get to see it again. Finals are hurriedly processed by the instructor or his assistants; after grades are recorded the bluebooks are promptly thrown...
This hasty disappearance of the bluebook is a serious weakness in the College's examination system, for a corrected exam can be one of the student's most useful study aids. One primary argument for hour exams was that they give the student a chance to size-up his work in terms of what the course and its instructors are driving at. And corrected finals, mid-years especially, are equally useful. A fall term final, fully explained and corrected, can tie up a full course into a neat package the student can work with for the rest of the year...
Annex Pay Day debtors still holding out on dues by the beginning of exam period will be assigned front row seats, denied honor system privileges, and proctored throughout the examination, Student Government treasurer Joan Braverman '49 announced yesterday...
House basketball came to a pre-exam end with three games yesterday, Lowell beating Kirkland 30 to 28, Dunster beater Eliot 41 to 33, and Adams edging Leverett 42 to 41, while hockey opened a pre-exam series with Winthrop downing Lowell...
University Professor I. A. Richards, who conducts Humanities 1, said the book had some merit, especially in the chapters reviewing "The Iliad" and "The Epic of the Hebrews." The section about the Book of Job, however, he described as "purest rubbish." Richards decried the use of review books "since exam questions are designed to make them useless...