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...gave a final exam Monday night in which students had to do a three-minute stand-up comedy routine in the back room at a pizza restaurant. Topics ranged from dead celebrities to sex to ethnic stereotypes to sex to television evangelists...
...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...