Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sophomore award will be made after a competition of the five highest candidates late in March, Perkins said. The prize to the Junior will be given on the basis of academic record, and the honors exam taken by History and Literature majors at the end of their third year...
Snapping back strongly after a long exam-period lull, the Varsity squash team smashed out two quick wins last week, 8-1 over Amherst on Friday followed by a decisive 5-1 shellacing of Trinity the next day. A perfect slate was marred only by two defeats suffered by Adam Foster, playing number one, who was set back by the top man of both opposing squads...
...said that the test was "like a final exam in five different subjects," complaining that he had been asked to remember too many specific physical formulas and chemical reactions. Another said that the formerly-given Morse Test was less specific in approach than its substitute...
...While one veteran said that "you really have a chance to demonstrate knowledge" on the exam, others said that it was a "waste of time," that it was not really an aptitude test, and that the test should ask for information that a "fellow has a fighting chance to remember...
According to one pre-med student at Radcliffe, the feminine contingent at the exam did not find it unsatisfactory. The future doctoress added, however, that she could see how long-absent veterans could encounter difficulty with some of the more detailed scientific questions asked in the afternoon portion of the examination...