Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make its point, The Clearing House sent out copies of the old exam to teachers from York, Pa. to Fort Worth, Tex. It was a tough one; the school kids in Springfield, Mass, who took the examination 101 years ago averaged only 40.60% in spelling, 29.40% in math. In the past eight months 20-odd schools have given the tests. Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent. In math they scored 52.16% on such questions as this: "There is a certain number, one-third...
...exam-weary undergraduates courageous enough to emerge from musty study rooms and absorb some sunshine, an interesting Ivy League doubleheader between the Varsity and Cornell gets under way on Soldiers Field at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon...
...best possible capsule descriptions of Harvard students is the one that says they are as varied as men can be. This otherwise applicable generalization breaks down sensationally twice a year, however, with the coming of exam time, when the actions of Harvard men are as rigidly conventionalized as those of a pulp story hero. Almost uniformly, they lash themselves into a delirium of anxiety, committing breaches of form by buttonholing complete strangers from their courses and asking their thoughts on possible test questions, and scuttling busily in and out of bookstores seeking condensations of course material or outlines...
...theory, by orthodox speculation, and by orthodox experiments disclosing orthodox novelty." He deplores the educational anxiety to "secure youth and its teachers from revelation [because it] is dangerous for youth and confusing to teachers." As a Harvard professor, the story goes, he horrified his assistant by marking the exam papers himself, dispensing A's for courageous originality, E's for orthodox parroting...
Final examinations are now the chief obstacle in the committee's way, Chairman John A. Quisenberry '46 declared last night, for the group will cease to function during the exam period unless additional volunteers are found to aid it in its work...