Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in the dining hall, Vag's momentary Plympton Street apprehensions were allayed. Above the chatter about Chem A, exam schedules, and the end of the Wellesley spring vacation, could be heard the magic words Durocher, MacPhail and Williams. Even Cambridge was a part of America. Hastily digesting his chipped beef on toast, Vag raced into the House courtyard, scooped up an imaginary ground ball, and made a perfect throw to first base. He made a mental note to cut his Tuesday lab, and maybe his 10 o'clock class as well. After all, it was opening...
...been so long that most people have forgotten, but there was a time, before the war, when undergraduates weren't required to take hour exams. Only freshmen had to take them, on the theory that they couldn't be expected to know what a Harvard exam was like and that they'd better have some practice before those big mid-year exams in January came up for the first time. With the war, it was necessary to set up hour exams at the end of the sixth and tenth weeks for all students in the College, inasmuch as the greeting...
...must be tested and given a mid-term mark before the end of the seventh week of every term. Although in some cases a paper may count as the seven weeks' grade in the over whelming majority of instances the mark is based on the results of an hour exam. The rule was established because the Faculty felt that veterans returning to Harvard were naturally out of the practice of taking exams; in view of the emphasis the graduate schools were placing on paper grades it would be unfair to make the returning student stand or fall on the first...
...basis of an old survey, bureau assistance helps eight out of ten of the students if serves to raise their grades. Many times the fundamental issue stems from the fact that students who merely had to parrot their instructor in preparatory school find difficulty in writing an exam that asks them to do something with the knowledge they have assimilated. Such men, once oriented, usually experience a great improvement in their marks...
...purpose of the Faculty's move is to eliminate the burden of preparation and correction of the exam papers, Taylor Starck, professor of German, said last night, pointing out that the special reading examination had been utilized largely by men who failed to get a C in a second year language course. Starck, along with William Berrien, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, was instigator of the decision...