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Thomas A. Timberg '64, chairman of the HCUA committee on exam grading, claimed last week that Gov 1 uses "an unfair and inequitable" quota system that limits the number of honor grades to be awarded in each section...
Changing Jobs. Until the 1920s, the British Foreign Office spoke for Canada in matters of state. But as the growing nation sought an independent voice, it augmented its dozen-man Department of External Affairs. A friend persuaded Pearson to take the exam for first secretary, and he walked away with top marks. Posted to London in 1935, and then reassigned to the U.S. as minister counselor and ambassador, Pearson quickly built up the best Washington contacts in the whole foreign diplomatic corps. A close set of intimates gathered nights around the Pearson piano, talking shop, singing and sipping...
...head of the HCUA committee on exam grading alleged this week that Gov. 1 section men are not allowed to give more than an allotted number of honor grades without the approval of the other section men. This practice, the committee chairman said, is peculiar...
...letter to the editors of the CRIMSON charging that "all midshipmen" were being forced to participate in the exercises "at the expense of respectable academic classes" initiated the short-lived controversy. Other students claimed they had been told that hour exam and papers were the only excuses that would be accepted for missing the parade...
...noted, however, that a lot depends on just how much weight the Commission and Federal agencies decide to place upon the examinations. "It's conceivable that exam scores will be counted very little in selecting summer employees," he said...