Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for the ritual of the exam, the student is asked to respond to course work primarily in the one long paper, scheduled after the end of the lecture part of the course. Until then, he just glides along, listening, taking notes, reading, taking more notes, passively ingesting knowledge, never asked for the evidence of his personal involvement in his education. Only after the lectures are over and the course is at an end is the student asked to report on what he thought, how he felt...
...Brower's courses papers are shorter, and assigned at frequent intervals during the term-- thus fostering student involvement in the issues of the course, at the time that the material is being considered in lectures, rather than during reading period or exam period. When the student is given incentives to read and write about what his professor is discussing in lecture, there is a renewal of the dialogue...
...company makes all kinds of exam books for about every school and college in New England, but Harvard orders only the blue 16- and 32-page books. Radcliffe also has blue books but numbers them in sequence--to keep tabs on their where-abouts. Some Harvard books have a thin black banner across the corner just to keep the undergraduate honest...
Boston College prefers to alternate five different colors to keep examgoers guessing. B.U. and M.I.T. have no covers on their exam books and, oddly enough, do not call them "blue books...
About now--as in January--the stock of exam books at the Hammett factory is quite low. Not only are employees kept busy rebuilding the inventory, but they also publish thousands of school diplomas in May (not Harvard...