Word: review
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...Curiously enough, this was never contemplated, the dates being fixed for quite different reasons of convenience; and, in fact, so much reading was assigned that there was no time for review," the report said...
...been referred to by other colleges as the 'pre-examination reading period,' as if the object were to provide a chance for review," Lowell wrote in his President's Report...
...fact, a committee assigned to review the success of reading period in 1930 also saw the plan as one which catered to self-starting honors students--in contrast to the situation today, when a reading period without assignments seems best suited for those who slack off during the semester...
...Many...were of the opinion that the positionof the reading period just before... examinationsis rather unfortunate, since this over-emphasizesthe examinations as the chief aim of the readingperiods and also causes students to use thereading periods largely as a time for review andpreparation for the course examinations," thecommittee report said...
Despite the heavy class assignments that haveall but vanished today, the reading period of 60years ago was already being used as a review bysome...