Word: orals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accordance with a requirement in operation this year for the first time, twenty-three members of the class of 1914 are on probation because they have failed to pass an oral examination in French or German. The question very naturally arises as to the reason for the precedent of inflicting probation merely for failure to pass in one particular requirement. Formerly probation has always meant deficiency in scholarship. According to the University regulations a student is place on probation if he has failed of promotion because he has not passed in a sufficient number of courses during the year...
...seems unwise to subject a man to the stigma of probation even though he may stand high in scholarship, merely because he has not passed an oral examination in a particular language. The case would be exactly analogous to that of inflicting probation for failure to pass in the prescribed Freshman English, French, or German, if that were the rule, which fortunately it is not. If probation comes to be the uniform penalty for failure in some particular course, will it not lose all its weight in the minds of the undergraduates...
...reading and translation of French and German will be given in the Summer School from July 2 to August 13. These courses, listed as French S5 (Mr. Lieder), will be open only to members of the University and are planned for those students who have not yet passed the oral examinations prescribed for the class of 1914 and succeeding classes. The fee for each course will be twenty-five dollars...
Members of the class of 1914 who cannot register in a class higher than the Sophomore until they pass the oral examination in either French or German will be given an opportunity to try one of these examinations on Monday or Tuesday, September 23 or 24. Oral examinations for members of the classes of 1915 and 1916 will be given during the first two weeks of the fall term...
Students who are planning to take the oral examination in German will meet the examiner in Sever A, instead of in Sever 35, at the times for which they have already received their appointments...