Word: exam
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...building on May 25, 1905, Emerson's 100th birthday, when the building became the first in the United States devoted to the study of philosophy. Legend has it that Harvard men used to touch Emerson's protruding foot for good luck on their way to Emerson D for an exam...
Seniors who have written theses take only an oral exam. In theory the hour is evenly divided between testing the student's overall comprehension of social relations and determining his knowledge of his thesis topic. In fact the former purpose is seldom achieved. Honors concentrators receive little or no testing of their understanding of the field as a whole...
Because the exam is administered at the end of senior year, the student doesn't benefit from the "feedback" effect; under the new plan, a student will be able to determine his strengths and weaknesses in time to learn something from the experience. At present, since failure would prevent graduation, teaching fellows grade the generals very leniently. With the new system, students who fail the exam will be able to take it again the following spring...
...junior exam will improve the quality of the students in the department, especially those in the honors program. Many students readily admit they choose Soc Rel because the courses and requirements are easy. Of those students, a very large number (this year 74%) write senior theses. In a recent report, the department's undergraduate committee noted that "many concentrators choose to do honors because it is simply 'easier' to take a full course during the year in which the only requirement is a long paper than it would be to take the normal course load and in addition have...
...plan to operate successfully, however, the department will have to effect other--and more fundamental--changes. Students currently in the field are simply not ready to take a comprehensive exam by the end of junior year, partly because of haphazard distribution requirements within the field, but primarily because the sophomore tutorial program lacks direction...