Word: orals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students in the College who intend to take the oral examinations in either French or German, or both, which will be given this spring from Monday, May 24, to Thursday, May 27. must notify the Recorder, University 4, in writing before tomorrow. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the examination. All students in the College, except those who entered before 1910, are required to pass this oral examination before the end of the second year...
...students in Harvard College who intend to take the oral examinations which will be given from Monday, May 24, to Thursday, May 27, this spring must notify the Recorder, University 4, in writing before next Thursday. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the examination. All students in Harvard College, except those who entered before 1910, must pass before the end of their second year this special oral examination in either French or German...
...students in the College except those who entered before 1910 must pass before the end of their second year, a special oral examination to test their power of translating either French or German. Opportunity to take either or both of these examinations will be given in the afternoon from Monday, May 24, to Thursday, May 27, inclusive. All candidates who wish to take the oral examination must notify the Recorder, University 4, in writing before next Thursday. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the oral examination...
...Faculty's additional rulings concerning the oral examinations work out the practical details of the new system. Most of them as the one limiting the length of the written test to one hour, are mere administrative regulations of no great significance. That a student should be allowed only one trial at the written examination seems a reasonable concession. For anyone who fails in this test after a minimum of two attempts at the oral quiz plus half a year of the tutorial course hardly deserves to be petted further...
...oral examination itself is losing much of its arbitrariness. The student who is fairly proficient in both French and German, yet brilliant in neither, may try both languages. And with this granting of two chances vanish the conventional complaints of the unreasonableness of a single passage for translation or the exactions of a particular examiner. The new rules will not make an individual oral examination easier. They will make the system as a whole more fair, however, and will make the ultimate penalty--probation--a serious disgrace for delinquent upper-classmen...