Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Norr told the CEP that pass-fail would allow students "a different kind of educational experience within the courses they took." Without grades they would be freed from "pressure to regurgitate the official line," and a few might use the three hours on a final exam to tell the instructor what they really think...
...their four courses without grades has turned out not to be as simple as it sounds. Some of the many difficulties spotted in the last month and a half are trivial: Honors seniors don't have to take finals if they get an honor grade on spring hour exams. Should a "pass" on an hour exam exempt a senior from the final...
...Princeton's Coach Dick Colman: "With no spring practice and other things on their minds, our players don't have time to be letter-perfect. On any given day, anything can happen." Adds Harvard Coach John Yovicsin: "Look. We have boys who will take a four-hour exam the day of the game. If they feel good afterwards, fine. If they don't, we're suddenly behind 45 to nothing...
...Weiss, who has taken five courses since taking a leave of absence sophomore fall semester. In the conflict between athletics and academics, it is the grades that suffer, but almost everyone in the room made the "Dean's Team" last spring. Coach John Yovicsin acknowledged last week's hour-exam pressure--Brooks had one Wednesday, two Thursday, one Friday--by giving the team a day off: Friday. The room has its serious times, but they are in December and January rather than before or after a game--even a loss like Princeton...
...rightly directed almost all the audit's venom at the department's general examinations--an anachronism that ought to be revised drastically or eliminated. Students are convinced, and many professors agree, that generals are little more than a rehash of final exam questions...