Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) plans to distribute one million copies of a "Vietnam exam" to students throughtout the country on the three the dates of national deferment tests...
...enduring paradox of the Boston Marathon is that the doctors who give each entrant a physical exam before the race never bother to check his head. Ask a competitor what makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost...
...student were able to change an ungraded course, that would be like being able to turn in a hand of cards if he didn't like the deal. No student should be allowed to juggle his courses or determine which is to be the pass-fail course after hour exams or first papers. If this were permitted, there would be no question about which would become the student's fifth course: the one that looked least encouraging, the one with the longest reading list, the one in which he wrote a poor hour exam...
...nationwide membership. A student found a boon in What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers (Jan. 7). "More than anything else," he wrote us, "those two pages helped to wrap up a semester's course in modern philosophy-and just in time for the final exam." Protestant Theologian Henry P. Van Dusen deemed On Death As a Constant Companion (Nov. 12) "the most masterly in a notable sequence...
Chicago demands from its students that they think for themselves. The gruelling 21-hour oral doctoral exam tests them on whether they have constructed "a theological position of their own and can defend it rationally," says the Rev. Philip Hefner, professor...