Word: oral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tutorial work when the hours might mean a better grade in a credit course. Since thoughts for improving this situation have ranged from a distasteful compulsory tutorial to a plea for better tutors, no action had been taken. With this background, the decision of the Economics Department to institute oral examinations for all juniors is especially worthy of consideration by the five other major departments. With the exception of History and History and Literature, which already have junior general examinations, these other three fields could benefit from a similar plan...
...Junior oral examinations can provide a convenient scale to measure the worth of a year's tutorial. Because the student's own tutor would head the board of examiners, all questions asked during the orals would be related to the year's work. Concentrators could still pick their own field for junior tutorial and the questions would be framed around this choice...
Economics tutorial can gain a boost from its program of junior oral examinations. Government, English, and Social Relations need this boost just as badly. Tutors in these fields might well consider the Economics plan as a practical, effective way to achieve both increased interest and improved tutorial performance...
...Junior oral examinations, which will be required for both non-honors and honors concentrators in the Economics Department, will not spread to the History, Government or English Departments this year...
Every junior concentrating in economics must take an oral examination in the spring term, the Economics Department announced this week. Beginning with the Class of 1955, undergraduates will be tested on their junior tutorial work. The orals will be required of both honors and non-honors majors...