Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity hockey team shook off the rigors of exam period and just had a good time as it demolished the St. Nicholas Hockey Club 7-1 Saturday night in Watson Rink...
...lecture attendance is poor and the score for sections even worse. Year after year, Confidential Guide questionnaires report that "the whole is the reading list." Many students, and not just the bright ones, find they can at least pass courses with only a few days of reading before the exam...
There is a natural lack of rapport between the graduate student pursuing an academic discipline and the undergraduate seeking general knowledge, especially when the graduate is primarily concerned with his doctorate. The loose structure of courses, with monstrous reading lists best read a week before the exam, aggravates the situation. Instead, students might write critical analyses of about ten significant books or the equivalent. These papers, which need not be lengthy, could then be the basis of worthwhile discussion and useful individual criticism...
...during Mann's senior year at Baylor Law School and went to Laredo, where Tom went into practice with his father and brothers for $100 a month. Then came Pearl Harbor, and Tom drove 150 miles to Corpus Christi to join the Navy. When he took his physical exam, he found he couldn't even read the largest E on the eye chart. "I had read so much in preparing those appellate cases," he says, "that I had a muscle-freeze in my eyes. The Navy wouldn't take me, and I felt pretty despondent...
...Harvard is to beat Gerbig & Co., it will take a solid performance from the varsity sextet. After a long exam period rest, the squad will hold its first practice in two weeks today. But coach Cooney Welland feels his squad will be in shape for the Saturday contest since most of his players have been practicing on their own during exams...