Word: oral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...efforts of the Student Council toward improving the regulations of the oral examinations were recognized at a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last Tuesday when two important amendments to the present system were adopted. These changes were in substance the recommendations as a result of a compromise between President Lowell and the Student Council, represented by a special committee composed of W. H. Trumbull, Jr., '15, president of the Student Council, D. Kimball '15, and C. H. Smith '15, chairman of the committee on scholarship. The purpose of the new regulations is to lessen the liability...
...Students who at the middle of their Sophomore year have not passed the oral examination in French or German be required to take in the second half-year a tutorial course in that language provided by the department concerned. This course shall not count for a degree...
Last January the Student Council declared unanimously against probation for failure to pass the orals, and a committee was authorized to send a petition to the Faculty. This was followed by conferences with President Lowell, in order to prevent a repetition of past experiences and to make sure that the students' cause received careful attention at the Faculty meeting instead of being summarily dismissed. As the negotiations proceeded, it soon became evident that the solutions proposed in the Student Council petition and in an article in the "Illustrated" offered little promise of winning approval. Both these solutions, despite minor differences...
...Secondly, men not having passed the orals at the end of Sophomore year shall be allowed the option of a written examination in French or German at the beginning of the Junior year--that is, before they really go on probation. And, furthermore, that a written examination shall be optional subsequently so long as the student is on probation. The passage set for the examination shall be of the same grade of difficulty as the oral, but different from it in consisting of an extensive, well-rounded chapter or episode, which need not be translated with verbal accuracy, but only...
...another column is a communication from the chairman of the Scholarship Committee of the Student Council setting forth the history of the recent efforts to secure an improvement in the administration of the oral examinations. This year, through the committee mentioned, a persistent and intelligent campaign has been carried on. The Student Council has not only been careful and specific in its recommendations, but has approached the subject from the point of view of the scholarly student, not merely from that of the disappointed athlete...