Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next day the Harvard star, who was also studying for a statistics exam, faced Canadian champ Smith Chapman, who had beaten him in Canada previously. Niederhoffer got the jump on the fast and skillful Chapman, keeping him up front in the court. The match went to 2-2 in games and 12-12 in points in the final game when Chapman cracked under pressure, hitting several shots into the tin. Niederhoffer took the game...
...Bogart movie, where tensions can be worked out by that funny little man who hits back so hard when he gets pushed too far. And no callow youth is really a Harvard Man if he has never seen Casablanca-- the all-time hunk of cinema hokum--during exam period...
...Lovejoy, 89, professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University from 1910 to 1938, author of the 1936 classic on man's idea of his place in the universe, The Great Chain of Being; of a stroke; in Baltimore. Once asked if he believed in God, during a fitness exam for a Maryland state board of regents, Lovejoy spun out 33 definitions of God, then asked his examiner which meaning he had in mind; he was confirmed...
...days of reckoning are near. Exams for the Fall Term will be held as follows: Group Time Exam Date I MWF at 8 Sat., Jan. 19 II MWF at 9 Thurs., Jan. 24 III MWF at 10 Fri., Jan. 18 IV MWF at 11 Mon., Jan. 21 V MWF at 12 Wed., Jan. 30 VI MWF at 1 Tues., Jan. 29 VII MWF at 2 Sat., Jan. 26 VIII MWF at 3 Sat., Jan. 19 IX MWF at 4 Sat., Jan. 19 X TTS at 8 Tues...
...conception of the world as even worth rebuffing. Instead, youth culture provides a moratorium in "growing up" to be like one's parents. It includes both the hedonism of beer-and-twisting at Fort Lauderdale and the smugness of those who hit 800 on the college board exam. It respects love, decency, tolerance. It leads to the "privatism" of early marriage and big families as a substitute for big careers. Perhaps it also leads to the Peace Corps-in one sense, the flower of youth culture -but certainly it does not lead to the political barricades...