Word: orall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charlie Wilson usually got to work about 9 in the morning. Nowadays, having turned out early to skim the morning papers, he is at the Pentagon at 8:15, and by 8:30 has had a conference with Roger Kyes. To keep informed on current problems, he relies on oral briefings, principally from his aide, Colonel Randall, or from Ralph Moore, a personal secretary brought along from Detroit. Early in his Pentagon career, Engine Charlie learned, he once reported, that "the people around here are always briefing you. They do it for at least eight hours a day. You listen...
...additional work comes with the special oral examinations. The Bible, Shakespear, Homer, Thucydides and language proficiency all come under departmental purview, and all must take general exams at the end of the junior year to quality for honors...
Concentrators must take at least three courses in Sanskrit, one in Indian Studies, and two in related fields. Candidates for honors have only one additional task, an oral examination on the field, taken in the second half of the senior year...
...Senior year the concentrator must pass two written examinations, one on Psychology in general, and one on Special Topics in Psychology. Candidates for honors must also present a thesis based on some original work, and undergo an oral examination on the range of material covered in the thesis...
Though no sophomore tutorial is given, there is individual honors tutorial for the juniors remaining in Cambridge and for seniors. This allows a greater freedom and individual choice for the students, the department feels, than would a more uniform program. The elementary oral language courses, "B" and "D" were recently eliminated by Faculty vote. This action does not mean that the department is abandoning the oral program. The courses will soon be replaced with more intensive elementary courses and there are many oral courses on the advanced level...