Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of little blue books must seem a mildly appalling, impersonal way of testing knowledge. While the mass examination is thus an admitted evil, even its loudest enemies will admit that it is a necessary evil for a large University. But if the University cannot rid itself of the exam system, it should, without sacrificing the content of the tests, try to make the ordeal as easy as possible...
Although the Board will allow exam-bound Radcliffe girls to wear blue jeans, a long coat (length unspecified) must veil such trousers at all times off the Quad bounds. The "long coat" ukase extends to cover so-called Bermuda, or long shorts...
Bostrom said he hopes to disclose the names of the 19 before the end of the exam period...
Students taking intermediate courses in other languages do not encounter this problem. Though the Spanish and other departments give the proficiency test along with the final exam, they do not consider the scores when figuring their grade lists. Instead, these departments use the tests as a gauge to judge in absolute terms the success of their teaching methods for the expiring term...
...effective final examination must lead to answers which weld the student's intellectual ability to the course material. Courses in the social sciences and humanities are especially geared to this kind of exam. Although the intermediate language courses are less profound than their course catalog cousins, they, too, are susceptible to the thought-fact type examination in which the emphasis is on material gleaned from the course...