Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maneuver he must; with Professor David Riesman, one of the Quincy associates, he is well into a ten day interview session hopefully pointing to final decisions and notifications before exam period. "I won't accept any more than eightly, and I'll have to demand some sort of commitment once a student had accepted my acceptance. If any drop out for good I can always fill in with more sophomores. Whatever happens we'll have 230 residents in the fall...
Guerard confirmed last night that his course would substitute a 3000-word essay for the final exam and termed the procedure "an educationally better thing to do" at present. Guerard explained that the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy has fully discussed the new plan. The group termed it "an experiment," not a change in policy or the start of a trend...
...Masters and Department heads can now attempt to resolve conflicting views into the beginnings of a creative policy. The difficulty, in this period when no one knows how the CEP proposals will work out, is in guessing whether or not a given department will use the spring qualifying exam to make honors more restrictive or more inclusive. No one can yet say how many non-Honors juniors there will be in a given field in a certain House...
...What I like about science," said the girl in the blue jumper, "is that if you learn what they tell you in class, and then put it down on an exam, you get an A. In something like English or history, you've got to put in more than they tell you to get an A. If you just get everything right they give...
...famed rigors of a CRIMSON competition will be somewhat mitigated by the impending Christmas recess, and by the fact that the Crime publishes only thrice weekly during exam period. And, of course, the winter comp is the CRIMSON'S traditional Christmas present to the Cambridge community...