Word: hours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the College more or less eliminated its mid-term grades a year ago last April, it gave individual instructors the privilege of still springing hour exams on their classes. Most of the instructors used this privilege; hour exams can be a very useful yardstick for both the student and his teacher, sizing up the student's progress well before he reaches the all-or-nothing final examination...
...wiener schnitzel and drink an African Zombie. At 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. the nitery's green-vested waiters clear the dessert dishes and fill the water glasses; the lights dim, and the stage at one end of the room becomes the center of interest for the next hour, as a group of young singers and dancers take over...
...course when the Nieman Fellows talk about competition they're not worrying about marks. But just the same the students keep them on their toes. One fellow goes to the blackboard regularly in beginning French, and, of the 11 in Merk's course, six took the hour exam. The mean mark was B minus, and only one received...
...test the old wives' theory that chilling and wet feet bring on colds, Andrewes persuaded some of his volunteers to soak themselves in hot baths, then stand around in a drafty passage for half an hour undried, wearing bathing suits. Then they put on wet socks. In the first test, the chilled volunteers caught the cold virus more readily than those who were kept snug and warm. But, said Dr. Andrewes, "we were foolish enough to repeat this experiment-with a contrary result." The only positive finding: chilling alone produces no colds...
...retaliation he backed a Democrat in the gubernatorial election, failed to support Hoover in 1932, acidly advised Fellow Kansan Alf Landon in 1936 to stay off the radio as much as possible. A rock-ribbed, prewar isolationist, he voted for the European Recovery Program, advocated the 48-hour-week and the open shop, never ceased harrying the New and Fair Deals with insistent cries for economy...