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...eminent scholars of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America raise though-provoking questions that would enchant any professor composing an exam on the Carroll Oeuvre. On Alice: "In what sense is Alice funny?," "What poem does the Duchess' song parody?," "How have illustrators other than Tenniel approached Alice?." On Carroll: "How can he be considered a Pre-Raphaelite?," "Why did he adopt a pseudonym?" and, predictably, "What about all those pre-pubescent little girls?." Intriguing, as exam essays...
Green Curtain. Armchair psephologists might have expected more of the network anchors, who crammed for the event as if it were a bar exam. Walter Cronkite, who for four years had been squirreling away newspaper clippings and other relevant nuggets of information, went into semi-seclusion weeks ago. Every day he would pull a loden green curtain across the glass windows of his CBS Evening News office and retype his dog-eared files onto pages of a loose-leaf notebook. "I don't learn just by reading, so I rewrite everything and get it into my head," he reports...
...your article "Degrees for Sale" [Oct. 11] about unaccredited law schools in California, you say that 60% of the graduates flunk the state's bar exam. What of the 40% from unaccredited law schools who are able to pass the bar exam? Are they to be deprived of a chance to practice law simply because they are not top college graduates with 700 scores on the law boards, or are other qualities to be considered...
...looking forward to some help in evaluating the writing skills of freshmen before they arrive on campus. The College Entrance Examination Board (C.E.E.B.) has decided to add to its college-admissions testing program next fall a short-answer test of standard English. In experimental use for three years, this exam will now become a separate but permanent adjunct of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) that is taken by roughly 1.4 million students each year. Further, the board will reinstitute a 20-minute essay section in the present English Composition Achievement Test, one of 15 exercises taken annually by some...
...haven't been this nervous since I took the bar exam," Mary Margaret Oliver, assistant professor of Law at Boston College, exclaimed last night as the tight race wore...