Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council had proposed last spring that commuters be allowed to withdraw books from 5:30 to 6 p.m. in a proportion of one to every five reserve books, excluding reading and exam periods. Johnson said last night he does not consider McNiff's letter a flat refusal, but plans to answer his arguments at tonight's Council meeting...
...open window seats during the hot June of 1900. But the extra frequency and the high power and plaintive tone of this particular call, combined with the figure of a long lank loose-limbed son of the New Hampsihre hills, gradually, from day to day, during that last exam-crammed fortnight of the year, began to pierce the subconscious stratum of the brain-sweating, window-seated public mind. Such was the highly-charged psycho-electric atmosphere on one of the afternoons before the next morning...
...Exam period is far away, but for those who remember three hours of squint and strain in Fogg during exam periods past, the delay cannot be too long. The lighting, designed especially for courses using slides, features a brilliantly illuminated stage, and overhead spotlight fixtures, equipped with what seem to be sixty-watt bulbs. The paltry number of foot-candles falling from above usually get lost in the dirty greenish decor...
...simplest and most effective answer is to rid exam schedules of Fogg altogether. Seldom used as it is, the Museum serves only when exams for a large enough number of big courses overflow the University's other auditoriums. Now, however, Harvard's latest monument to concrete and glass offers two new halls, one holding two hundred examgoers, the other one hundred and fifty...
...test is composed of a set of questions for which there are only two answers and is similar to a true-false exam. One of the answers shows a liberal attitude and the other a conservative outlook...