Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exams. The Spalding Slaughter has now given way to the Crumgold Finesse, originated by the late Miles Crumgold, Harry and Bill Green Professor of World History. It was Dr. Crumgold's custom to warn his students well in advance of the hour exam that they were in for a "toughie." As the day approached, he would start hinting at some of the incredibly intricate questions students should prepare for, and with one lecture to go he would--in a burst of charity--pass out a list of relevant items. The actual exam then consisted of a single question, typically...
...sure and measured success." Maybe some miracles are needed. Brazil should be taking off economically; it is barely holding its own. Education is a shambles: half of the population remains illiterate, and there is no room at the university for two of every three students who pass the entrance exam. Workers who earn only $40 a month must spend a fourth of that on bus fares to get to their jobs...
...white Local 212 of the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, but none has been better qualified or more persistent than Anderson L. Dobbins, 37. A graduate of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a predominantly Negro liberal arts college, he passed a city electrician's exam in Newport News, Va. In Cincinnati, he tried off and on for years to join the local-in vain. The union said he had to get work before he could be a member; the employers said he could not work without a union card. Last month, in a direct attack on color barriers...
Alfred said his course "is easy, but that doesn't mean it's gut." "Students are so good at it because it's the literature of their age," he said yesterday. Students claim the course "isn't graded terribly hard" and is relaxed. A final exam question last year asked for a comparison between Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde and Desdemona of Othello...
...Bunting said last night that the closed reserve system is the only way to ensure that books will be available during reading and exam periods...