Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changed the College, program as much as it had changed its appearance. The Army imposed a trimester system that confused everyone. The first two trimesters ended with hour exams while the final one ended with a final exam. Trimesters proved such a burden that Harvard switched back to the semester system...
...teacher, Nabokov was provocative, tough, highhanded. At Wellesley, anxious to get off on a June butterfly hunt, he startled the registrar's office by wanting to turn in his grades before the final exam. He already knew, he said, exactly what each of his students was worth. When he did give an exam, it was demanding. Appalled by the constant cheating, he browbeat students to go to the toilet before the papers were passed out and pressed fresh pencils into the hands of examinees rather than let them go to the sharpener...
...group is basing the drive on the arguments advanced by the Exam Boycott movement held earlier this term. "Exams are painful and pain should not be a part of learning," the group's spokesman said yesterday...
Imagine what happens when the year comes down to one day's work for each hour test, paper, and exam. That's all that you have...
...NIXON ADMINISTRATION: THE FIRST TOO DAYS (NET, 9-10 p.m.). Exam time for the new Administration on its activities, policies and general deportment under the scrutiny of journalists and specialists in Government affairs...