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Word: exam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exam period ends, Dean Bundy announces that he is taking the suggestion of allowing typing on examinations under advisement. "What the Dean means to say," his secretary points out, "is No." The New York Times Fund for the Needy announces its donation to Nathan P., who is supporting a large family. Unfortuntely the allotment falls somewhat short of the requested $85.5 million...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Peron move into Argentina, but the country is destroyed by a faulty U.S. missile broadcasting the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Bernard Goldfine comes out of retirement to become Dean of Harvard. From her cell his secretary, a Miss Paperman, reports that he is taking advisement under a typing exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...meeting of the Cambridge Senate: "It's ridiculous. It reminds me of the Victorian dictum, 'It doesn't matter what you teach a boy, as long as he doesn't like it.' " As a boy, Lyttleton did not like Latin, flunked his Cambridge entrance exam the first time, barely squeaked into the university on his second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sic Transit? | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Government 99 will require an essay by Junior Honors candidates in May, instead of a final exam, Stanley H. Hoffman, Henry LaBarre Jayne Assistant Professor of Government, revealed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gov. Substitutes Essay for Final | 12/19/1958 | See Source »

William T. H. Youngren, Teaching Fellow in General Education and head section man of Brower's course, confirmed the report that English 163 would also experiment with an essay instead of a final exam this year. No reasons for the change were given by Youngren or by Brower, who was unavailable for comment last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Essays Replace Two Final Tests | 12/18/1958 | See Source »

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