Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Chaplin, British subject, surrendered his U.S. re-entry permit in Geneva and flew off to London. Chaplin had made his decision. The U.S. Immigration authorities had warned him that he would be subject to a screening exam, just as any other alien, when he returned. In his London hotel room he wrote his valedictory after 40 years of U.S. residence: ". . . Since the end of the last world war, I have been the object of lies and propaganda by powerful reactionary groups who, by their influence and by the aid of America's yellow press, have created an unhealthy...
...course material at all. The reason is each language department includes a one-hour objective proficiency test with its examination of the course material. But unlike most of the language departments, the German department rests a good deal of the student's grade on his performance in the proficiency exam...
...assigned work. This is unfair to the conscientious student since the memorization of a twenty-page vocabulary list can bring a high proficiency test score to someone who never attended a class or prepared the assignments. The German department claims that students' grades on the proficiency exam are almost directly proportional to their scores on the course material. But since a healthy share of that exam consists of isolated vocabulary words and idioms, many students who have become adept at recognizing words in context would have their grades jeopardized by this policy...
...systematic exam, a student may choose among Metaphysics, Ethics, and Logic. In the ancient and modern philosophy exams he has a choice of a long list of authors on whom he will be intensively examined--one in each period...
...only practical way to assure a constant supply of examinations is to put them beyond the reach of all hands, both grubby and rapacious. The glass enclosed show cases are just right. They would permit several students to examine a single exam at the same time, and would keep at least one copy safe right...