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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undergraduates who have struggled through their first divisional examinations during the past week cannot have failed to notice one particularly pleasing feature of these tests. For, in all departments except the sciences, an extra fifteen minutes is given by way of a dividend at the beginning of the exams, a period when the papers can be read over with care and a plan of action formulated in the student's mind. At the end of this time the blue books are given out and no time is lost in beginning the three or four hour trek of pen over paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME FOR THOUGHT | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...advantages of this extra period are such that it is perhaps not out of keeping to ask why nothing has been done in this regard in mid-year and final examinations in courses. For the student the quarter hour is a blessing: he has time to read over the instructions, which are often highly complicated; he has time to make selections where choices are allowed him; he has leisure for brief jottings and outlines of his answers. Nor can this be criticized as leading to a "softening" of the standards, since its effect makes for more orderly and hence more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME FOR THOUGHT | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...parimutuels at Churchill Downs as well. Owner Woolf was reported to have cleaned up $150,000-the biggest killing since the days when Colonel Edward R. Bradley, four-time Derby winner, used to plunge on his own horses. To dazed little Eddie Arcaro Owner Woolf gave an extra bonus of $2,500 in addition to the usual 10% of the first-prize money. All Lawrin got was a necklace of roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: From Missouri | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Williams and Harvard were tied at 4 1/2 points apiece Saturday and Barr and Sides played an extra hole with two Williams men for best ball to determine the match. Barr sank a long putt for a birdie on the 19th for the Harvard victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON GOLFERS TAKE TITLE THIS WEEKEND | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...students are so busy that the opportunity must remain closed to them; the main obstacles are laziness and intellectual torpidity. Possibly the University would do well to aid in overcoming student inertia by rewarding not only auditing but all forms of worth-while extra-course study; certainly, along with the American History Plan, auditing is potentially a means of furthering the ideal of the University-that every student shall receive a broad cultural training, shall "learn a new way of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

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