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Extended hours for Lamont Library will begin Sunday and continue until the end of exam period. Lamont will operate until midnight, Monday through Friday, and will also be open from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. the next three Sunday, May 22, May 29, and June...
...proposed plan been accepted, all students would have been compelled to sign a statement at the end of each examination saying that they "had neither given nor received assistance" during the exam, and would have been morally obliged to report any student seen cheating during a test. Furthermore, each prospective student would have to agree to the system as a requirement for admission...
David F. Hawkins '56 took the first final examination of the year at the Geographic Institute last night. All students in English Q were required to attend the exam, in tuxedos, but the time limit was closer to 15 minutes than three hours. Other members of the University, except proctors, were welcome, without tuxedos. Seven other speakers displayed their rhetorical skill, poise, and sophistication before English N. Frederick C. Packard, associate professor of Public Speaking, and a tape recorder. For the rest of the College, finals will not start for another two weeks, until Wednesday, May 25. They will continue...
...specter and visions of three-hour sessions over blue books in sultry classrooms. Although the examination itself is a necessary evil in the large university, its procedure here seems to be the University's unique anachronism in the Machine Age. The Administration has repeatedly resisted any attempts to make exam-taking less tedious by allowing skilled students to type their examinations in special rooms...
...Exam typing has worked very successfully at Yale, Princeton, and the Harvard Law School for several years. They have easily overcome the only reasons which the Administration can offer for not permitting typing here-space problems and administrative difficulties. Although lack of desk facilities would prohibit typing in many halls, the largest examination room of all-Memorial Hall-could handle just as many typing students on its long tables as those who presently write. Possibly this one hall might handle all the College typers. By posting advance sign-up sheets for students interested in typing their exams, the Registrar could...