Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...January moves on and hordes of the conscientious descend on Lamont and Radcliffe Libraries, it is worth halting the grind to consider the purpose of examinations. At least 6 courses were prominent in their absence from the exam schedule, and the fact of alternate term papers in these courses sheds some relevant light on the question...
...courses--English 163 and 175, Soc Sci 134, Government 114 and 155a, and Music 124--all offer long papers as either optional or required replacements for the standard three-hour exam...
...been argued that the exam is an irreplaceable part of the lecture-and-syllabus system. Life itself, so the argument runs, is an endless succession of crises in which the educated man is called upon to marshal and organize his knowledge on short notice. Certainly in a course aimed toward the assimiliation of large quantities of factual or semi-factual data, the exam is a successful approximation of such a crisis...
...influence on the student's performance. The weather, the digestion of the last meal, a strong or weak reaction to sudden tension, or even the way a girl sounded on the phone last night--all these can play a huge role in the quality of work produced on an exam...
...orders a hat-shaped bottle of Haig & Haig to drink on the Capitol steps. From University Hall comes news that a rhinoceros has been appointed to the vacant Geography professorship. "It costs relatively little to feed," Dean Bundy explains, "and we can use the money saved elsewhere." To relieve exam period monotony, the Lampoon parodies the Wall Street Journal. The Journal returns with a parody of the Lampoon. The Lampoon parodies the parody. The Journal parodies the parody parody. The Lampoon asks for an eighty day "cooling off period." It is granted...