Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert S. Bolt '53, spokesman for the Council, last night stated that since only courses with small enrollments have exams in the last two days of the exam-period most students will probably enjoy the normal two-day vacation. Some students, he said, will probably have a longer stay between terms under the new schedule...
Adler is already off on his next great project, which, if he succeeds, will make the Syntopicon look like an exam pony. Adler wants to summarize all the knowledge of the Western world in one vast work, comparable to Aquinas' 13th century Summa or Diderot's 18th century Encyclopaedia. His aim: to help end the Babel of Western civilization, in which specialists in various fields not only disagree but cannot even argue with each other in the same language. He does not want to reach conclusions, but simply clear the decks for "some future philosophic genius" by summing...
...Council will also consider a petition Radcliffe Student Government Association, protesting the plan pasted the Board of Educational policy provides for only one day between the end of the exam period and the beginning of the spring term...
...freshmen playing in the spring," he said, "you would have to start at least three weeks before the first game. Figure on a four-game schedule after that, and you have a season which extends almost into exam period. That certainly would not be good...
Helen Bray was an attendant at California's Pacific Colony State Hospital for retarded children for five years before she decided to take the exam for psychiatric technician. When she did, she placed first. Thereupon, Technician Bray got charge of a sprawling cottage housing 100 youngsters aged one to three...