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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final exam for the fall term's most popular class, Economics A, is rescheduled for an unprecedented 7:15 p.m. time slot due to high enrollment and space limitations. Many students are angered...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Back to School: 1946-'47 in Review | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...took the dreaded English A anticipatory Exam and I flunked it, a dubious start for a would-be writer. But it was a well-disguised blessing, and the strict standards of my English A section man (his face remains, his name is gone) imposed a discipline on my thought as well as my prose that I realized was overdue...

Author: By Charles Champlin, | Title: REMEMBERING 1947: LOOKING BACK ON HARVARD AND RADCLIFFE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...short story class and Carvel Collins, who gave a wonderful composition course and who steered my to my encounter with Life magazine and thus set my whole professional life in motion, I could hope to make my way as a writer, despite my dismal performance on the Anticipatory Exam...

Author: By Charles Champlin, | Title: REMEMBERING 1947: LOOKING BACK ON HARVARD AND RADCLIFFE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...evidence that Gardiner had in fact been skating the night of his disappearance. Jaffe said that he had seen Gardiner in silhouette with skates slung across his neck, walking at the edge of the river. Although Jaffe was admittedly fatigued, relaxing near the river after a rigorous Chemistry 5 exam and a few beers at Cronins, he insisted that his chronological diary set the time of his sighting...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: The Gloomy Tale Of a Harvard Man's Icy Demise | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...final exam is automatically skewed, then it is simply not a good final indicator for a class. The final exam should be weighted less than 50 percent; it is not a good enough indicator to determine so much of a final grade. The other parts of the class, papers and midterms, should then count for a larger percentage of a grade. At least in this system, grading is spread over several days...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Inadequate Examinations | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

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