Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King's Point Merchant Marine Academy and New York State Maritime College, was scheduled to be completed Tuesday at King's Point. But after three days of sailing in light airs, the race committee decided to run the final four races on Wednesday, the first day of Harvard's exam period...
Lack of wind and a cautious race committee sent the ICYRA Dinghy Championships (Nationals) into an extra day this week, forcing the Harvard sailing team to withdraw early because of a conflict with the exam schedule...
...Medical Board Examination, a standardized test that measures basic scientific knowledge, as the most obvious evidence of Harvard's slipping standards. To attribute this decline to the Medical School's adoption five years ago of a "core curriculum" that does not emphasize the anatomy and pharmacology required for the exam--a change which affected the performance of all students and has since been abandoned--is a reasonable assumption. But to attribute a supposed lowering of standards at the school to the increased number of minority students admitted during those years is clearly racist and wrong. To further single...
...representative of most black students at the school, so too it is unfair for him now to take the five who failed last year as representative of the approximately 30 minority students in the class. It has been proven in several cases that standardized tests like the National Board Exam are biased against minority students. Even considering the higher proportion of blacks and whites who failed the exam last year, the results say more about the nature of a test taken in the middle of a medical school career than they do about any students' "ability to handle material" they...
...value in having students pay attention to the material without distraction, Riesun said, was his motivation in offering a course with no final exam. "But since every course at Harvard competes with every other course for a student's attention, we had to establish a special esprit de corps...