Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flyer mailed earlier this month to the parents of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, the committee offers an exam period "survival kit" featuring "food for thought" for the student trying to cope with finals...
Christopher L. Goff, a third-year student, says, "People generally agree that the requirement is a failure. It's very boring. All it does is teach the Canon of Ethics, a set of rules required for the bar exam, Theoretically, it's a good idea to teach ethics, but I don't think the course was worth two credits...
...toward a "basic literacy in major forms of intellectual discourse" for all students. Students would be required to take an expository writing course and to demonstrate competence in a foreign language, as they are now: they would also have to take a math review course if they failed an exam at the beginning of the freshman year...
...years later, a sophomore in high school, Jim had enough confidence in his skiing to attempt to join the patrol. "I wanted it so bad I could taste it," he said, "and I knew they would only take 15 people." After passing an endurance test, he took a written exam on first aid and ski patrol regulations, and passed with the second highest score. This qualified him for the skiing test: Jim had to demonstrate every technique of skiing, from stem christie to parallel to snowplow on a very steep slope, and ski every kind of snow--packed, powder...
...River Houses. Ellen Kellman '76, now pursuing a joint degree in public policy and law, says, "When people hang out with large groups in the halls, they do weird things." This self-mocking humor inspired such institutions as the North House Annual Christmas Matzoh Ball and the pre-exam Quad Howl...