Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born invited him to Göttingen, where he earned his Ph.D. (at 23) three weeks after enrolling. Oppenheimer's Ph.D. thesis was a brilliant paper on quantum mechanics: Zur Quantentheorie kontinuierlicher Spektren. After the oral exam, a colleague asked Physicist James Franck (now at the University of Chicago) how it had gone with Oppenheimer. Replied...
...make room for hour exam schedules, the Varsity will practice in the Cage tonight from...
...reached for his shoes, he remembered this was examination day: Several prolonged yawns proved he had been up late the night before. A minute later Vag realized the exam wasn't coming up after all--it was over and what was more, there was the blue book he had failed to hand in. Squatting right in the middle of his desk it was, marked carefully in black, Absentee Ballot...
...single basis of an Anticipatory Examination. This is tailor-made solely to screen out newcomers whose writing skill already meets with the College's requirement that "By the end of his Freshman year, a student must be able to write . . . clear and concise . . . English." The Anticipatory is the hardest exam the College offers. This year more than 950 students were eligible for the exam. Thirty passed; they were inordinately lucky or exceptionably skillful. The rest, except for those who pull down an A after the first term, will have to sweat out polyglot sections until June...
...various elementary language courses. It is undoubtedly a fair system; students are sectioned by ability. English A could use a similar method. The single purpose Anticipatory should be scrapped for an English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose and correct, but it would certainly split up the course into sections of comparable ability. Many students might start right off the bat with English Ab. Harried section men would find themselves successfully teaching a whole class, not part...