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...University makes allowances for disabilities, such as needing extra time because of visual impairment or an amanuensis to write an exam for someone whose hand is injured. In such cases the professor is advised of the special conditions so that he takes that into consideration while grading the exam, Stull said...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...last week's meeting on divestment policy, only one of the three student reps--Gina Cattalini '87--showed up to contribute to Radcliffe's divestment dialogue. The other two, Dahlia Weinman '87 and Ann Geiger '87 didn't. Seems one had an exam and the other...
...everyone agreed with the committee's findings. A Radcliffe News article in February, 1954 reported that "Not one of the 10 Radcliffe proctors when questioned said she had ever since any cheating in an exam... They felt unanimously that there was no cause for abolishing the honor system...