Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone who reads Esquire or the Times Sunday magazine knows why Harvard types go to Bogey movies at this time of year--to identify with cool, with toughness, with everything exam period manages so completely to discourage. But there's really less to it than that: Bogey lets us forget how to think...
...Paddle. The atmosphere at St. Aug's is warm but strict. Misbehaving students are whacked with an oak paddle; homework averages three hours a day. Entrance is by competitive exam, but the school's principal, the Rev. Robert H. Grant is committed to the idea of a comprehensive high school for youths of different intellectual capacities, and the IQs range from 75 to 130. Every pupil writes a weekly 300-word composition to counter the prevalent weakness in verbal skills. Math and science come easier because in those subjects "we are dealing with a kid's natural...
...hooks, D's are dandies or dogs, E's are eagles and F's are frongs or keepers. (B's are B's.) A University of Florida student who Christmas-trees it with flunkenstein is one who marks the answers on a multiple-choice exam in a repetitive pattern without reading the questions, then gets a failing grade from an IBM machine. A flunking student has flagged it, flushed it or tubed...
...Exeter game," Getchell confessed, "was far from our best. But any mid-week game during hour exam time I'm happy just...
Though Mike's IQ was too high to be tested meaningfully, he placed ninth among 3,400 M.S.U. students who took a comprehensive natural-science exam, was in the top 10% of doctoral candidates on a graduate-student screening test...