Word: exam
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...less than an axiom, more than a thesis but less than a synthesis. The Princeton student has it made if he can spot these prized nuggets in rapid reading or sporadic attendance at lectures, spin them out glibly during a precept and, above all, weave them dazzlingly into an exam essay...
...difficulty with this is that it requires the student to read rather than browse through the assigned books, and to attend lectures rather than crib the cept notes of a conscientious friend. And doing all of the assigned work leads to a dangerous temptation: the student may answer an exam question with original thoughts, not cepts. To the cept-conscious prof, this is evidence that the student is trying to cover up his loafing and his failure to learn his cepts...
...essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." Mason Hammond '25 won $50 apiece for translations in Greek and Latin. Clarence Crane Brinton '19 won an Elizabeth Wilder Prize in 1916, made to a Freshman in need of financial aid who receive the highest mark on a German A or B exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded out of the Charity of Edward Hopkins to students making Group 1 for the first time. In 1936 Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. 38 wrote a laudable sophomore essay and won a Ferguson. Walter Jackson...
...that Harvard students are more intelligent, more serious, better prepared, etc., etc., than ever before. I don't raise a question of intellectual ability, in the common sense of the term, but of the ability--and desire--to communicate, to exchange ideas, to use intellect for something more than exam-time cramming and tutorial papers. The death of small magazines is simply a symptom of the infection of professionalism and careerism is slowly spreading through the College...
...liberal arts and sciences, plus "Advanced Fundamental Skills," which teaches "swimming, dancing, weight training, judo, wrestling, fencing," and Course 300, a "historical overview of the European origin of sports, games and gymnastics." The daily schedule of five hours of classwork had its problems. "You'd be writing an exam, and your chair would be sliding across the deck," says Roberta Mount, 18, of Hayward, Calif...