Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...History and Literature has threatened to turn the area from a field of concentration to one of domination. The course requirements are already among the stiffest in the College, and with the increasing pressure from the Junior Qualifying examination, students face the alternatives of inordinate cramming for the qualifying exam, or else spending three-fourths of their college career taking courses within their field...
Although the Committee's official position is that the student's individual program principally determines the subject matter for which he is responsible, in practice the minimal requirements are so broad, five or six full courses before the Qualifying exam are barely sufficient for adequate preparation. Not only does this discourage electives in the Sophomore and Junior years, but it puts great emphasis on survey courses, which are often less satisfactory than more specialized studies...
...school, for example, we heard that the boys would study Saturday night rather than spend the evening socializing. UCI students told of night-long cram sessions extending for several days, before they took their equivalent of the College Boards. And these sessions are standard procedure prior to any UCI exam. Failing a course may mean expulsion if a re-exam is not quickly passed...
...living in Montreal, insisted that gifted Goren go to college. Charlie moved in with the cousin, enrolled at McGill University law school. After finishing up the regular three-year course, stayed on for a postgraduate year before going back to Philadelphia and bluffing his way through the Pennsylvania bar exam. "I had to bluff," he says. "I didn't know anything about Pennsylvania law." A fellow lawyer of the 1920s recalls Goren as "brilliant," but no one could prove it by Lawyer Goren himself. In his 13 years of practice, he never made more than $5,000 a year...
...there is much more to the Summer School than the nightly collection of hungry males ogling the windows of female - filled Wiggles-worth, the sight of a bare nail-polished foot extended upon a chair during a final exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed...