Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...departmental committee that studied the various proposals this Fall rejected devices for paring down the honors program and advanced the junior-generals idea on its own. Even though Donald H. Fleming, chairman of the Department, has said the exam will help determine who gets into honors, lie doubts that junior-generals will reduce the number of thesis writers. In effect, the junior faculty tried to cut down the number of honors candidates, and the senior faculty refused to go along...
...long since undermined it. No one would dispute that there is a positive value to learning a foreign language--value not as a memory exercise, but as exposure, however tentative or potential, to another culture. Even a score of 800 on the college boards would not indicate this. The exam still does not include a listening-comprehension or speaking section. It tests only the basic vocabulary and rules of grammar, the kind of knowledge which, for Harvard's presently required 560, can be picked up in a year or two and forgotten even faster...
Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, cancelled his post-election day exam in city politics, but city planning and intellectual history exams went on today. A few students griped...
...History 169's Donald Fleming remarked when told some people disliked studying on election night. "I asked when the students wanted the exam, but I couldn't get anyone to agree on a date...
...would like to know how the RGA proposes to "work out the problems" of over-crowding in Hilles Library by waiting a month and a half. Waiting a month and a half means waiting till Christmas vacation, which undoubtedly means tabling the discussion until after reading and exam periods. Over crowding problems do not work out by waiting, only by restricting admittance or adding more tables and chairs. The number of boys in Hilles has been between 100 and 120 each night this week, about 20 per cent of capacity. I suggest that the RGA, a body organized "to further...