Word: orals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron Revelstoke appeared as rapporteur for his informal group before a secret session of the second Dawes Committee and made an oral statement* understood to be in substance...
Died. John Walters, 58, of Brooklyn, N. Y., most famed of U. S. racetrack bet brokers ("bookies"), onetime protege of the late sportsman William Collins Whitney; of heart disease; in Paris. Commissioner Walters handled millions with only oral promises, no receipts...
...more intelligent plan appears the one which allows a candidate to take a distinction degree with or without specialized work, at his own option. To obtain honors in a general field an outstanding record in a written examination at the end of Senior year, an oral examination, and a thesis is imperative. A candidate for honors degrees who still wishes to examine a portion of his field more closely will simply devote part of his final year to research under the guidance of his tutor. He needs no pass vised by authority to put him across this line of concentration...
...working out for the first time of an experiment far-reaching in its implications which, should it prove successful, may stir some witnesses to emulation. Honors candidates studying under the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature will complete, by handing in a thesis and submitting to a brief oral examination, the program adopted last year by the Committee which released them from written divisional tests in their field after Junior year...
...judges decide the winners of the case solely on the merit of their argument, based on four points: the structure of the briefs, the value of the cases cited, the oral presentation, and the ability to answer questions propounded by the judges. After the decision has been rendered on the basis outlined above, the judges customarily state what the law is, and what the decision would be were it to be tried in an actual court of justice...