Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrestled the devil up and down the Ohio Valley (his biographer says he won). Though Wesley exhorted his circuit riders to "preach expressly on education," learning for themselves was another matter. Until 1934, Methodist ministers needed no bachelor's degree for ordination, qualified by a laughable oral exam. One minister bragged about his answers. What is the world's highest mountain? "Mount Zion, bless the Lord." The longest river? "River of salvation, hallelujah...
...During exam period, "course assistants may feel pressure from the University" which allows them only seven days to grade finals, according to Robert G. McCloskey, Chairman of the Government Department. However, he does not feel that the amount paid to individual graders...
...Economics, there is a theory called the "Fallacy of Composition:" what applies to one person does not apply to an entire industry. The undergraduate taking final exams is subject to this fallacy. He has spent an entire term studying a course, has arrived at his own ideas, and to him, the three hours spent in examinations are vitally important. But his grader, faced with 100 blue books, sees the exam as just one unit in a mass production...
...plans to give his exams back to students, and wishes that he had time to comment on them. "Not to give the exam back," he says, "would increase the cram psychology" and the student should be able to see some evaluation of his ideas...
...Saturday afternoon, Doten, University record holder, tossed the weight 56 feet, 11 inches, good enough for second behind New York A.C.'s Bob Backus. He then whipped off from the Cage for a final at Emerson Hall, arriving at 2:15 to take the exam--in his track sweat suit...