Word: midterms
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...English professor routinely gives A-minuses to students who do nothing more than attend his class. A history professor allows students to skip midterms, giving A-minuses if final exams are intelligible and B-pluses if they are not. Most professors are unwilling to assign more than two papers--or one paper and a midterm--and a final exam for fear of losing students shopping for courses in an enormous catalogue...
...interim agreement to reduce the Soviet and U.S. missile arsenals in Europe. On nuclear testing, however, the Reagan Administration is in no mood to compromise. Says Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger: "If we are to depend on the reliability of our nuclear stockpile, then we must test." Partly because of midterm congressional elections and partly because of the complexity of the subjects that need to be clarified before a meeting, a summit will probably not be held until late November or early December. "Later rather than earlier seems to be the best bet," predicts one U.S. official. "But there will...
RESERVE READING? Whether they've used it once or a hundred times, students know that the phrase doesn't mean efficiency. For many, reserve reading has become synonymous with trudging over to Lamont--often the night before the midterm--only to find that the book isn't on reserve...
...slept through your last midterm, three irate section leaders are demanding papers or else, your best friend has abandoned you for his thesis, and it's pu-pu platter for dinner again. Oh yeah, and it's raining...
O140: Gelber is back to his station. He begins studying for his midterm in Literature and Arts B-16, "Abstraction in Modern Art," a.k.a. "Spots and Dots...