Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in my Harvard career, I had been conscientious about getting a lot of sleep each night. I had been up all night on Thursday before the Princeton game (for a Friday hour exam) and felt it--I lost a lot of stamina on the field. It was in that game that I was injured...
Economic considerations will help maintain the lecture system, but no excuse remains for retaining the present examination system. As an educational device, the exam is worthless. A long term paper, or several shorter papers, would ensure learning far more effectively and might encourage original thinking. It a policing mechanism is desired, short quizzes are far more efficient than a three hour exam...
Tutorial-for-all, the freshman seminar program, and Independent Study are all welcome departures from the lecture-exam routine of rote learning. But all these programs were put into effect more than five years ago. If they are successful--and student response indicates they are--why hasn't the Faculty expanded them? Why are some departments cutting back their tutorial programs...
...middle of the third period, the effects of the exam period break were obvious, as the game slowed to a snail's pace. By this time, however, the outcome had already been decided, and the last ten minutes seemed merely an effort by both teams to run out the clock...
...special five-man board to review the "fundamental programs" of the academy. But if changes are made, they will come far too late to help any of the cadets involved in the scandal. Those who simply failed to report the cheaters will probably be given honorable discharges; the exam salesmen may be subject to courts-martial and dishonorable discharge...