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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College may soon revamp its policy of excused absences from exams, requiring students to make up missed tests during the regular exam period instead of waiting several months for a retest, College officials said yesterday...

Author: By Matthew J. Mcdonald, | Title: College May Change Rules on `Sick-Outs' | 9/26/1990 | See Source »

...think it makes more pedagogic sense for students to be able to take their exams later in exam period," said Leverett House Senior Tutor Elizabeth B. Keeney...

Author: By Matthew J. Mcdonald, | Title: College May Change Rules on `Sick-Outs' | 9/26/1990 | See Source »

...allows students who are ill, but would like to take their exam, time to recover," said Adams House Senior Tutor Janet A. Viggiani, "without penalizing them...

Author: By Matthew J. Mcdonald, | Title: College May Change Rules on `Sick-Outs' | 9/26/1990 | See Source »

...course that won't be upping its requirements in the foreseeable future is Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert Coles' General Education 105: "Literature of Social Reflection." Although the absence of a midterm or final exam has led students to call Coles" class a gut, he insists that the class--popularly called "Guilt"--is actually very demanding...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: Harvard Guts: More Than You've Bargained For? | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

...undergraduates to actually crack the hallowed Harvard testing system was the now-legendary Donald Carswell '50. He offered some advice to fellow exam takers in his article, "Beating the System," for which he won the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson has been rerunning it during exam periods ever since, and in 1962 it was joined for the first time by the infamous "Grader's Reply." Best Wishes, A Grader

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

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