Word: exam
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...developing time-saving devices for professors, so that additional hours might be freed for publishing or perishing as the case may be; and in response to the growing pressures on the American educational jungle for standardization; the CRIMSON suggests that the following be adopted as the Early November Hour Exam in all courses...
Excuses & Exams. Good conning necessarily includes a range of ingenious excuses. No. 1 seems to be infectious mononucleosis, which is hard to diagnose and can be feigned to excuse weeks of goofing off. One Yaleman comes down with it at exams, which he then takes in the infirmary with his notes under the mattress. A Chicago professor notes the prevalence of "unspecified emotional disturbances," such as "the traumatic experience of a boy who, discovering his roommate was a homosexual, just wasn't able to study." Another up-to-date excuse, says the same professor, came from...
...Exam time gives the con man his last chance-and perhaps the best instructions on how to seize it came from David Littlejohn, who last year was a Harvard teaching fellow, and is now an assistant professor of English at Stanford. Littlejohn set out to rebut an annual Harvard Crimson piece on how to fool the grader on exams by "use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
Getting an appointment was easy; getting in proved more difficult. Roger flunked the entrance exam. The Naval Academy Foundation-a private organization, says the Navy-paid his way to New Mexico Military Institute for a year of cramming in English. He passed handily on the second try, and then it was off to make Navy Coach Hardin a happy...
Ford said that he will replace the traditional exam graders in his own spring course, History 150b, with six section men teaching bi-weekly sections. About 30 students will be assigned to each section, and all exams and papers will be graded by the section...