Word: orall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oral Essays...
...over 250 years after the College opened, there was no registration of any kind. In the 17th Century, the President and tutors of the College customarily administered an oral entrance exam to each candidate for admission. This exam consisted of dissertations in Latin and Greek. Once admitted, the prospective freshman received a copy of the College laws, and the President signed his "admittatur," thus officially admitting him to Harvard...
...Professors in medical school," Dr. Robert Brown told a banquet of ballplayers in San Francisco last week, "can give a guy a bad time. Their oral examinations break many a medical student who can't take it." Dr. Brown, an intern at Southern Pacific General Hospital, credited his own success in medical school to pre-med training as a third baseman for the New York Yankees. "Big-league baseball conditioned me to hold up," said the "Golden Boy" who was paid a $50,000 bonus to sign with the Yanks in 1946. "I could look those profs...
Business Career: After flunking the difficult oral exams for a financial branch of the civil service, he entered private enterprise. Worked in Quebec for a telephone company, in Paris for U.S. investment bankers Blair & Co. Highly successful. As late as 1939, Pleven said: "Politics do not interest...
Make Your Mistakes. Murrow handles the front-page news and the editorial interpretations. But Hear It Now also has oral "columns" and features. Red Barber talks on sports (Pittsburgh's General Manager Branch Rickey urged the nation to keep its morale high with baseball); drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie...