Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noon 2:15 p.m., Aug. 15 All other classes 2:15 p.m. Aug. 16 ARTS and SCIENCES COURSES COURSE TIME EXAM DATE 8 a.m., Aug. 23 9 a.m. 9:15 a.m., Aug. 21 10 a.m. 2:15 p.m., Aug. 21 11 a.m. 9:15 a.m., Aug. 22 12 noon 2:15 p.m., Aug. 22 All other classes...
...result is unsurprising. In Boston, where special high schools require entrance exams, one Negro boy typically complains: "I never saw that kind of math before I went for the exam." In his recent civil rights speech, President...
...near Scotland's bleak coast. Now it was time for Princess Anne, 12, to leave Buckingham Palace. She will be one of next year's "new girls" at upper-middle-class Beneden School, in Kent, 42 miles from London. She didn't have to take an exam to get in, but that was the only curtsy to royalty. Along with her 300 schoolmates, she'll be up at 7, make her own bed, take her turn setting the table and washing the dishes. And that's fine with her parents, although they will be permitted...
...that uses a paperback library of classical drama (cost: $5.70). Mississippi's Jackson State College suggested the theme; the Fund for the Advancement of Education will spend $10,000 for the series. At Louisiana's Southern University, students prepped for a month and took a one-hour exam before Hadas even opened his mouth. Hadas considers the idea not as good as "a flesh-and-blood teacher, even a bad one." But since even a bad Hadas is unavailable to the Louisiana and Mississippi students, Hadas ended his first talk feeling "quite elated...
...February, exam period, and we (my schoolmates and I) are sitting behind the austere desks of Widener Library, studying. The silence is stunning. What if someone grew excited about his work, and spoke out loudly? But we are here to read, to transfer the contents of various books to our various minds: an African studies Shakespeare, a Jew is learning Greek, a bearded old man scans John Updike's latest novel; I, whose ancestors migrated to Indiana during the Civil War, am reading American Colonial history...