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...Laboratories and spoke to Joan H. Langenheim, research fellow in Biology, about his predicament. One problem is that Barghoorn is teaching a fall term course (Biology 107: The Evolution of Plants in Geologic Time) which has a final examination next Wednesday. According to University regulation, a copy of the exam had to be in the hands of the Registrar yesterday...
This year, said Brown, it was found that the earlier date--Jan. 19--conflicted with the Graduate Record Examination, which several seniors in the course planned to take. It was therefore decided that the exam would be given...
Reading period and exam period come twice a year to everyone in the Harvard community. Everyone, that is, but the gentlemen of the Department of Buildings and Grounds. While students attempt to make up back work, write papers, work out problem sets and read, Buildings and Grounds sticks to its year-round schedule. B & G's men remain busy at their usual tasks; painting students' rooms, varnishing woodwork in students' rooms, removing wallpaper in students' rooms, and cutting lawns outside students' rooms (during the spring). Perhaps the powers that be in Buildings and Grounds could find a better time...
...survey was run by Psychologists Kenneth B. Clark (whose studies of segregation bolstered the 1954 Supreme Court school decision) and Lawrence Plotkin, who both teach at City College of New York. Their chief conclusion is that colleges ought to weigh entrance-exam scores less for Negroes because the tests "do not predict the college success of Negro students in the same way they do for whites...
Other suggestions range along right different lines. William Alfred would preier to see frequent hour exams temper like arbitrarneous of one final exam; Edward H. Geary, associate professor of Romance Languages, limits his discussion to the most successful ways of testing achievement in beginning language courses; George W. Goethcia, lecturer on Social would prefer to see exams provide "an opportunity to make a synthesis of it [the course] with material which has been learned elsewhere," thereby guiding the student...