Word: exam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calendar, as in so many aspects of day-to-day life, Harvard has clung to what administrators call a traditional path, with a fall semester starting late and exams after Christmas break, and a spring exam schedule that this year threatens to run into June...
Most Ivy League schools and some outside the exclusive cadre have switched to a new exam system, one that makes some frustrated Harvard students green with envy in late...
Harvard's system is unusual, but not unique. There are still some schools--Princeton and New York University (NYU) among them--that have not changed over to the now-customary exam schedule...
Academic calendars became the subject of heated controversy on many campuses in the late 1960s and 1970s because students and faculty had conflicting views on what the best exam system was, says Columbia University Registrar Zeita-Marion Lobley...
...usual 30 minutes. "Doctors shouldn't be able to pat themselves on the back for doing a Pap smear in seven minutes," says Dr. Janet Schwartz of Women's Health Centers. The three W.H.C. clinics in California take pains to ameliorate the two banes of the gynecological exam: icy stirrups on the examining table are covered by foot warmers and vaginal specula are warmed. The clinic at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta even offers a small gym and Tupperware-like health parties at which women get to throw questions at a physician. Above all, the centers claim that their...