Word: exams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other changes affecting first year students are the addition of an extra hour of class work per week and the abolition of the mid-year final examination if favor of a year-end final with a comprehensive exam given at mid year. In addition, first year students will have to take a summer "historical" reading program...
...feel that communists are especially desirable on a faculty. My faith, if there is any left to me, is in the undogmatic mind, the mind free to exam data without pro-conclusion and to aim for the conclusion implicit in the data itself. No party-liner--communist, catholic, bible-fundamentalist, shintoist, or what you will-is wholly free to observe this process, and to the extent that he is not free he is undesirable as an instructor in most courses, particularly in those courses where the nature of the material seeks to discover questions rather than mechanical answers...
...Captain Loon Van Bellingham operates at fullback and his forte is running. Last year he was the fifth man in the backfield, subbing at halfback for Jack Nork end at fullback for Kusserow. He was ineligible for the Amherst game because he took a makeup exam during the summer and his mark just came in Wednesday. Madar thus didn't get a chance...
First run of the exams comes off on October 28 and 29, followed by three repeat performances in 1950--on February 3 and 4, May 5 and 6, and August 4 and 5. Applications can be secured from the Service; they must be in at least two weeks before the applied-for exam...
...then there is the complication that exam period or ablate data can offer. Both of these distractions have the same general effect; to wit, they dim the scribble's unflinching regard for detailed research and careful analysis, reducing him to what sometimes borders on wild guesswork...