Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing a final exam is thoroughly a one-way proposition. You never get to see it again. Finals are hurriedly processed by the instructor or his assistants; after grades are recorded the bluebooks are promptly thrown...
...system, for a corrected exam can be one of the student's most useful study aids. One primary argument for hour exams was that they give the student a chance to size-up his work in terms of what the course and its instructors are driving at. And corrected finals, mid-years especially, are equally useful. A fall term final, fully explained and corrected, can tie up a full course into a neat package the student can work with for the rest of the year...
...exams are to teach as well as to test, the knowledge of their results must include far more than a grade scrawled on a postcard or machine-typed onto a form letter. Final exams take a tremendous amount of time from student as well as instructor; the return of these exams, even if only temporary, would do much to make that time expenditure more worthwhile...
...Class of 1924 nominated Lodge for the office in line with the tradition of selecting the Chief Marshal from the 25th anniversary class. The directors of the Alumni Association made the final decision...
...vague notion that I had been gypped. For the first two acts of the play I thought I was enjoying not only a genuinely laughable piece, but a comedy which was even sounder for recognizing a human problem and treating it with sympathy. But the final resolution is just a magical blend of cajolery and near-fraud that makes Terence Rattigan's "O Mistress Mine" merely another very funny comedy...