Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should you fear the presence of bleary, unshaven, odorous male exam crammers, remember what your husband will look like in the morning; and anyway college is where you go to get educated...
...back in Abilene, Swede spent many an hour at the Belle Springs Creamery playing penny-ante poker with Night Foreman Eisenhower during the long, lonely night shift. It was Hazlett who persuaded Ike to try for a military career, helped him cram for his Annapolis-West Point competitive exam. (Ike went to West Point because he was too old for Annapolis.) At his old friend's funeral, the President clenched his face in an immobile mask to hold back tears. When taps died away, he stepped forward and gently kissed Hazlett's widow. Then, with downcast eyes...
Undergraduates may be posted at Lamont during exam periods to check students' bursar's cards in an attempt to stop non-Harvard students from using the library...
...Committee can remedy this situation in either of two ways. One would be to limit more specifically, though not necessarily less flexibly, the area for which the student is responsible on the Qualifying exam. The claim that the present vagueness is equivalent to a reasonable limitation is contradicted by the direction on the exam that it is designed to test the student's knowledge of the entire field...
...other possibility would be to move the Generals, which is what the so-called qualifying exam turns out to be in practice, back into the Senior year. The orals, which have become veritable ogres, could be de-emphasized, with some of their purpose being covered by the Generals. Qualification for writing a thesis could be determined in a number of ways, as it is in other departments, by essays, interpretive exams, or some less ambitious test...