Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Library officials are willing to open Boylston after hour exams if it is proven necessary. But they have no reason to keep it closed now. This cautious action will undoubtedly insure that a lot of exam answers are incorrect. It would be interesting to see campstools in Widener's halls, but lights in Boylston would be more satisfying...
...Widener Reading Room contains 264 seats; if pushed to the utmost, 310. Economics A has 455 enrollees, Government 1, 425, and History 1 has 341. When the usual hour exam and reading room traffic hits Widener, most late-comers will be studying on the marble stairs. The Union library no longer will be able to accomodate part of the Freshman class since that building has been given over completely to the Navy. Nor will the House libraries relieve the congestion since each House library has only one copy of each basic book in History, Government and Economics...
...integration necessary to the success of Harvard education. Science students, particularly, found it impossible to digest the full quota of factual material usually presented, while those with long lab assignments were over-whelmed by the attempt to jam sixteen weeks' work into the five-and-one-half allotted. Short exam periods immediately following final lectures cut out all review and forced students to resort to "coffee-and-benzadrine" cramming. The impossibility of tutorial in the Summer Session removed the last vestige of Harvard's traditionally thorough training...
...real pain is not centered in the marking system as such, but in the Business School's whole examination policy. As it is now, except for one course on Managerial Reports, the final exam mark and the course grade are usually one and the same. There is some attempt to count class recitation, but the professors themselves admit this is slightly hopeless. The classes are so large and the material so vast that very few students get called on more than twice a term. Labs and homework are nothing more than borderline factors. Consequently, the student goes into finals realizing...