Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometime during exam period three years ago a fanfare interrupted an otherwise peaceful dinner in the Freshman Union. Weary Freshmen looked up to see a large white sheet emblazoned with a pink "A+" unfurled from the balcony. A figure well over six feet tall in a white lab coat appeared, shed the coat, and dropped down to the floor of the Union dressed in a black wet suit with another pink "A+" painted on the chest. The man in the wet suit then ran throughout the Union distributing previously graded blue books. The grades were, of course, all A plusses...
...degree didn't seem as interesting as other things I was doing at the time--playwriting and my involvement in the labor movement," Friberg said "So I never took the exam...
...also uses scores from the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to identify students, but there has been a shift in the past two years to greater use of the PSAT, Druesne said, because a larger number of students in more states take that exam...
...degree didn't seem as interesting as other things I was doing at the time--playwriting and my involvement in the labor movement," Friberg said "So I never took the exam...
...presumed superficiality, the league turned instead to specialists in such subjects as energy, foreign affairs, welfare and economics. They did not work out well. Some were too selfconscious, professorially superior and downright argumentative, rejecting a candidate's argument scornfully as if they were grading an undergraduate's exam paper...