Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth's Undergraduate Council advocated on Thursday night an honor system for the college examinations, based upon students reporting the violations of others rather than individual confessions of cheating. The Big Green's exam system, which is now proctored, has been under consideration for revision by the council during the past two months...
Seventy percent of Princeton students favor extension of library hours into the early morning during exam periods and before thesis deadlines, a poll by the "Dally Princetonian" revealed this week. Firestone Library is now open until 12 midnight every weekday...
...Leghorn, Italy ship chandler (who named him Athos after Dumas' musketeer), Menaboni collected birds as a child. "When I flunked an exam at school," he recalls, "father would set them all free and I'd have to start collecting over again." He worked his way to the U.S. on a freighter, made a precarious living painting everything from birthday candles to murals until his bird pictures caught on twelve years ago. Now, at 55, he has more work than he can handle. Sure of his talent though he is, Menaboni swoops on praise as voraciously as the next...
After "working real hard at it," Jack Dempsey passed his real estate brokers' exam in California with a grade of 85, took his diploma, then hung out a gilt-lettered shingle in Beverly Hills and waited for the customers...
Teacher Bunche used no histrionics, lectured quietly from his chair. He won the reputation of being the most exacting professor on the Howard campus (a Bunche exam was apt to last four to five hours). But students flocked to hear him, found him always ready to help them...