Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demands were passed, here and at dozens, perhaps hundreds, of schools across the nation. Nixon went to the Lincoln Memorial and talked with the kids about surfing. The Faculty voted exam options; the Administration refused to honor an employees' strike; radical students set up picket lines around University Hall; the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities showed a few more students the door; and a large majority of undergraduates-myself included-left pretty quickly for home, vacation, summer jobs. Meanwhile, in South-east Asia-all over Southeast Asia-the body counts went up by a few more thousand...
...even if the Faculty doesn't, that rebuilding American society so that no more Vietnams can happen is more important than all the petty academic routine Fair Harvard can come up with. If we were strong enough and (I hate to use the cliche) together enough, Faculty votes on exam options would seem even more ludicrous than they have in the past. Last Spring we weren't, and when the strike won the inconsequential victory of exam options it collapsed...
...have the desire to succeed academically-but it must be remembered that academic success per se is a significantly inferior quality in a community where creativity and brilliance are the ideal, where men pride themselves on their capacity to spend a semester directing plays, then walks into an exam and do as well as a woman who has spent the semester grinding...
...program which reportedly enrolls more than a million people in North Vietnam. The classes met for 21/2 hours twice a week for people who entered the work force before completing secondary education. Upon completion of this course about half of those enrolled in the final year pass a national exam and enter a higher technical correspondence school...
...take a 'review.' " The 500 people a year who pass through the program progress at varying paces. A student with an average IQ and a seventh-grade education could be prepared with 20 to 25 hours of instruction. Then Smith has them take the General Educational Development exam, which is widely accepted as the equivalent of a high school diploma...