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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proper treatment will cure 99% of syphilitics," declared William A. Hinton, instructor in Preventive Medicine and Hydiene, in a talk in the Junior Winthrop Common Room last night sponsored by the Student Union and the Association of Medical Students...
Juniors and Sophomores will go to the polls today to elect nine men for the 1938-39 Student Council from a list of 41 candidates. In an effort to get out a large vote, present officers of the Council announced that balloting will be held in Widener and Claverly, as well as in the House Dining Halls for all three meals, Dudley for lunch, and Harvard and Sever in the morning...
This is a modification of a previous rule which required an oral examination for all Honors above the cum mark, and was put into effect because it was felt that it was "a waste of both the student's and examiners' time" to have the oral quiz when the record of the student already indicated that he was sure of a magna...
...particularly pleasing feature of these tests. For, in all departments except the sciences, an extra fifteen minutes is given by way of a dividend at the beginning of the exams, a period when the papers can be read over with care and a plan of action formulated in the student's mind. At the end of this time the blue books are given out and no time is lost in beginning the three or four hour trek of pen over paper...
...advantages of this extra period are such that it is perhaps not out of keeping to ask why nothing has been done in this regard in mid-year and final examinations in courses. For the student the quarter hour is a blessing: he has time to read over the instructions, which are often highly complicated; he has time to make selections where choices are allowed him; he has leisure for brief jottings and outlines of his answers. Nor can this be criticized as leading to a "softening" of the standards, since its effect makes for more orderly and hence more...