Word: orall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these seminars the students are not graded, but instead they take a heavy battery of general examinations, both written and oral, in the spring of their senior year. These examinations are prepared not by the Swarthmore faculty but by outside examiners, who serve to prevent academic inbreeding. Students have high praise for the system, saying, "it means you're working with an instructor, not against him," because he neither writes not reads their examinations...
Edward Reynolds, the Administrative Vice-President, said yesterday that an "oral agreement" had been made between Harvard and B.U. by which Harvard would buy the land when Sargent moved closer to its mother university across the Charles River...
...then there was a somewhat sophisticated, somewhat mid-western senior who faced a very distinguished professor with distinguished white hair, at his oral examination for honors in English. The professor peered intently at the young man, his voice resonant. "Young man," said he, "could you tell me what you believe to be the significance of the white whale in Moby Dick?" The young man seemed to ponder the question very earnestly and after a few moments he looked up at the professor and replied in a mid-western drawl, "Well, sir, it always struck me that it was just...
...John B. MacDonald has been named Director of the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children and professor of Oral Microbiology in the School of Dental Medicine...
...only about thirteen or fourteen men, and according to Dean Roy O. Greep this figure is too small: "The School must look forward to an increase in its graduate enrollment at some time in the future." Dean Greep feels that the Harvard system of dental instruction--in which the oral diseases are looked at not from a purely dental standpoint, but from the consideration of their relation to the entire human organism has proved its worth beyond all doubt and that the Dental School could increase its present enrollment without lowering the existing high standards of instruction...