Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This system prevailed until he Faculty meeting of January 29, 1949, a meeting already memorable in students' minds for its emasculation of the tutorial system, when it was voted to set up what has come to be known as the seven weeks' rule. This rule, which is in effect today, requires that all undergraduates taking regular undergraduate courses must be tested and given a mid-term mark before the end of the seventh week of every term. Although in some cases a paper may count as the seven weeks' grade in the over whelming majority of instances the mark...
...however powerful the reasons for the crucial Faculty decision, it cannot be denied that the situation for which the seven weeks' rule was established no longer exists. As Mr. Bender's report conclusively shows, the influx of veterans into the College has now been reduced to a trickle. It can therefore be flatly slated that the overwhelming percentage of veterans who are now at Harvard have been in the College sufficiently long to discover what is expected of them on examinations. With the initial need for hour exams removed, they are now discovered to be the source of a good...
...seven weeks' rule is also completely unsatisfactory from the standpoint of many members of the Faculty. In advanced courses, hour exams are often totally unsuited to the nature of the plan of study, with the result that they form an artificial and thoroughly unfair method of measuring student ability. Tutors find that their tutees have to abandon tutorial work for a period of a week or more in order to prepare for hour exams. And finally, many members of the Faculty, working within the constrictions of the war-shortened semester, find that the necessity for giving hour exams further reduces...
...Washington, at a V.F.W. meeting, U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark tried paraphrasing the old Army rule: "If it moves-salute it; if it doesn't move-pick it up; if you can't pick it up-paint it." His new version for the returned veteran: "If it cries-change it; if it's on wheels-buy it; if it is hollow-rent...
Dependent peoples everywhere in the world were stirring, seeking self-government. Those under U.S. rule were no exception. Last week, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug fanned libertarian fires across the Pacific. For Guam, Samoa and the former Japanese mandates he urged civil administration (under his own department) instead of Navy rule, as a first step toward self-government...