Word: oral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most non-Honors concentrators will still take oral exams in their junior year, but some will be exempted on the basis of unusual performance in tutorial. Orals will be abolished for all Honors candidates...
...asserts. "You have more freedom here, but I don't think it is good. You have a course, you write four or five papers a year, you write two finals, and they give you a grade. It doesn't really show your knowledge. I think you ought to have oral tests--every day--as we did in Hungary. There spoken tests count a lot more than written tests, and you never knew when you would be called on. They want to make sure that you study, and you've got to keep...
...degree is not, we said, a professional degree. Rather, it implies a high technical ability--and, we hope, taste and skill in the art of written and oral communication. The result should be original work, especially in the sense of having the work reported with individuality. We cannot require a man to be creative. To avoid further generalities an outline of a specific plan is presented...
...membership in the Voluntary Defenders. Founded in 1949 by two students who broke off from the Legal Aid Bureau, the Voluntary Defenders group handles criminal cases. Each year the third-year members select 13 new members from over 70 applicants on the basis of written material submitted and oral interviews. "This way," explained Richard C. Kohls 3L, president of the Voluntary Defenders, "we get people who are really interested in helping indigents, rather than students who simply get good grades...
...heard the other day, as we recall it was one of those slightly windy fall days when the whole natural process is somewhat uncertain--that folk music was dead. The oral tradition, our Jeremiah confided, was no more. And the ubiquitous tape recorders of the Lomax clan have succeeded only in attracting the curious and such aesthetes as might otherwise "mourn the Medieval grace of iron clothing...