Word: orals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Juniors enrolled in Economics tutorial--Ec 98--will take a written examination this May in the second half of an experiment to find the right testing method for the course. This winter Economics juniors became the first undergraduates to take oral examinations...
...Economics 98 staff met Thursday and, according to H. Francois Wilkinson, head tutor in Economics next year, agreed that an examination would not make Ec 98 more of a rigid course than a tutorial program. The staff felt that some sort of exam--oral or written--was necessary to help in grading...
...question of oral vs. written exams the instructors were not in complete unanimity. The staff decided however, to give a two-hour exam in the reading period with general questions composed by all the tutors. Each tutor may them choose certain questions or reword them to make them conform to the aims of his particular tutorial...
...treat many menstrual disorders: "habitual or threatened abortion," and to "establish conditions conducive to pregnancy" in many cases of infertility. All this is true. But the pills do more: used on a precise schedule, they prevent conception, without intolerable side effects, and, beginning this week, at moderate cost. "Oral contraception," says a doctor in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "has become an accomplished fact." As an accomplished fact, its potentials are vast. In the U.S., oral contraception could, for many people, supplant more awkward, older methods. In the world, the pill could eventually keep the population growth manageable...
...tests show that a patient's clotting time is not unduly prolonged, they say, the surgeon can go ahead, using special techniques to stanch bleeding and to su ture the wound tightly. Oral Surgeon Behrman had one case in which he removed nine teeth, plus a section of the gum, without undue bleeding. Surgeons in other fields have found that it is safer to keep a patient on anticoagulants even for such radical operations as amputating a limb, removing a lobe of a lung, or working inside the heart itself to free a hardened mitral valve. In most...