Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movies more than once a month, he's probably going to fail. By closing the library at 5 p.m. on Saturday, it's presumably encouraging students to have a social life. But in in any event, it is true that to do well on the single yearly exam in each subject, a student must study regularly and thoroughly...
After twice flunking the bar exam in Boston, he finally passed, won admission to the Massachusetts bar in 1944, but practiced only briefly as a lawyer. His diligent work for Catholic and community charities, a must for political advancement in Boston, brought him to the attention of Mayor (later Governor) Maurice J. Tobin, who made him deputy commissioner of Massachusetts' state department of corrections. It was then, in 1945, that Frank's great hero, Joseph Kennedy, entered his life...
...present a student can obtain a medical excuse from a final examination only if he is physically incapacitated while the test is being given. The student who has been too sick to study during the days immediately preceding the exam, but who has the misfortune to recover by the time the exam is given, must take the test...
...discretionary authority to excuse a student from an examination for which he was unable to prepare adequately because of illness. A physician's signature would be required, and the Senior Tutor would simply countersign the excuse if convinced that the period of illness was crucial to preparation for the exam. Putting the burden of proof on the student would minimize abuse of the rule...
...that a student should somehow stand ready to be examined in a course at any time, at least after the end of reading period. But even if people studied more regularly than they do now, they should still be able to count on the last few days before an exam for review. If they are too sick to study then, they have not had a fair chance to prepare and they should not be forced to take the examination...