Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economics 98 staff met Thursday and, according to H. Francois Wilkinson, head tutor in Economics next year, agreed that an examination would not make Ec 98 more of a rigid course than a tutorial program. The staff felt that some sort of exam--oral or written--was necessary to help in grading...
...number of proposals have been advanced to remedy this situation. Some would require that all exams bear detailed comments; others suggest that each student have a right to confront his grader. One of the more unique suggestions is that of Sanford A. Lakoff, assistant professor of Government. The present student-faculty ratio, Lakoff says, makes it "utopian" to expect elaborate comments or an individual session with a grader. Many courses might improve matters by devoting a special meeting to a "post-mortem" on the exam, but half-courses would find this difficult...
Before leaving Harvard, every student must swim fifty yards and score the equivalent of 560 on a College Board language exam. Skeptics may perhaps be forgiven for wondering which is more important as education. The swimming test reflects the rough and ready days of Teddy Roosevelt; the language requirement goes back to the golden age when fluent Greek was the hallmark of educated Roman patricians...
...less lyrical recipient was Donald Carswell '50, whose often reprinted CRIMSON article Beating the System gained him the 1951 award. Beating the System is most frequently seen as a stormy petrol before the onset of exam period, and begins memorably, "This article is designed to explain how to achieve an answer to the examination problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
...came a whimpering sound. "He's alive!" cried Major Benson. "He's talking to us!" Soon the chimp chamber was on the deck. No. 65 grinned and shook hands with Major Benson. Then he was rushed to the Donner's battle dressing station for a physical exam. Pronounced healthy, he was then officially given the name...