Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They feel that the emphasis on examinations -- rooted in the weight given to a student's grades -- distorts legal education. first year exam results largely determine student membership in the prestigious honorary extra-curricular ac- tivities -- the Law Review, the Board of Student Advisers, and the Legal Aid Society. And a student's numerical average - down to two decimal points -- is often the major determinant of an employer's decision to hire or reject a Harvard Law graduate...
Presently the 2-S deferment offers the student alternative ways of protecting himself against the draft. To qualify for deferment in the first place, he must be a "full-time student in good academic standing with his school." If "a full-time students" scores above 70 on the draft exam he will be safe as an undergraduate, while he must score above 80 to continue through graduate school. The other route lets a student stay in college if he can maintain an average which places him in a certain upper fraction of the class...
...place a student's deferment in peril because of a below-par performance on the Selective Service qualification exam handicaps students who cannot afford the best schooling. Predictably, those who come from the more privileged socio-economic backgrounds and are able to attend the better colleges score higher on the exam...
...faculty member at the conference said, "I feel reluctant to give a student a C minus on a Keats exam when I know that it may ultimately decide whether he goes to Vietnam...
Reed withdrew from Harvard last winter and moved to Voluntown, Conn., headquarters of the New England CNVA. His failure to report for a physical exam and then for induction last spring led to his arrest and jury trial...