Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority pilot training course may have to stay in Cambridge for several weeks after their last exam is over, according to an announcement from Washington yesterday. A new ruling requires fledglings to finish out their 35 to 40 hours in June or else drop the course altogether ; there will be no make-up next fall...
Three Harvard men have already taken the flight exam and received their private license: two at East Boston and one at Dennison airport. However, because of the unusually bad flying conditions which have prevailed during most of the winter, a large majority is behind in training, and in the middle of June there are certain to be several without the required number of hours...
Only this year have a number of colleges, including Yale, given the exam to seniors. It will be given here on a purely voluntary basis, to all Seniors who wish to take it; letters form Dean Hanford, giving full details, will go out to the entire class of 1940 this week...
...fellow who tried to get friendly with one of our workmen and buy an exam paper from him. But we discovered the leak within an hour, and within the next he was packed and leaving for home. "That," Pottinger added, "happened fifteen years ago, and since then no one has had the nerve to try it again...
...them insisted $6,000 was enough. Another suggested raising the ante to $10,000 and moving expenses. So last week, still sticking to $9,000, they finally decided to have civil-service examination for the six candidates. Best guess was that Dr. Wood would star in the exam. Whether he would be appointed no one could say. Certain it was that Los Angeles doctors, fed up with political fights, were ready to blow the lid off County Hospital...