Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first stop, the sleek two-engined Convair was eight minutes late. At Syracuse the snow was heavier and Pilot Thomas J. Reid landed a half hour behind schedule, late enough for Barbara Levy, Syracuse University sophomore. She had kept a taxi standing by while she finished a mid-term exam, had rushed to the Syracuse field to get a quick start on a winter vacation...
Teachers were willing to admit that the tests could winnow out the bright and the quick. But they still did not pick out the hard-working or the talented. They gave no quarter to the late bloomers, made no allowances for children who happened to be overwrought during the exam. Cried one parent last week: "The test gets the child so worked up. My Patricia went out of the house white as a sheet, and couldn't eat any breakfast." Added another: "It's terrible to think that what a boy does at eleven will govern his whole...
...classes, held in the geology lecture room of the University Museum, consist of films, selections read for speed of comprehension, lessons in skimming and note taking, suggestions on writing exam papers, and dramatizations of the attitudes behind different methods of studying...
Generally a "B" student, she was presumed to be behind in her work. The disappearance came after she had taken her first exam Monday morning...
...best solution would be to stop giving exams in the Fogg Large Room; however, this may be impossible due to the lack of large auditoriums around the University. But at least the administration could remove the cardboard bushels and add a little more candle-power during exam period...