Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than ten seniors failed the written portion of the non-honors general examination. These students were then required to take an oral examination. The Board of Examiners voted to fail five of the students...
...tutor said there were some questions raised over whether several of the students would do better in general examinations to be given next year, and whether it was fair to fail students whom the department had been passing in courses for four years...
Thernstrom said "the question of failing people on general examinations gets down" to the question of whether the exams should be given...
Thernstrom said the present format of general examinations is a valid one for "testing competence in a small area of history." The department should therefore be able to exercise the option of failing students who do very poorly on the test, he said...
Elsie's and Belgian Fudge both advertise "homemade" ice cream, but Sam Citron, manager of Baskin-Robbins, charges that these establishments are not complying with regulations handed down by Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti that define "homemade" as "made of natural ingredients and made in the retail outlet in which it is sold...