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...discussions that have been carried on within the symposium on examinations sponsored by the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy may soon be extended to the Faculty at large, with the publication of a number of essays emerging from the CEP study...
Organized a little over a year ago, the CEP's symposium on examinations may be the first of its kind. With the realization that grades have become increasingly important in the last decade, the CEP has tried to gain perspective on the problem of examining and grading by asking a number of professors to give their views on the matter...
...forthcoming booklet will serve as an impetus to further discussion of examination philosophy and policy. The CEP has emphasized that the study has not been undertaken with the intention of making professors conform to any "ideal" standard for examinations, but it does hope that the results of the symposium will be suggestive and informative...
...face of the Sokolov denial, Princeton students maintained that an Embassy official had informed them by telephone on Friday that the controversial poet would speak at their cultural symposium April 19-21. "When I spoke to Mr. Bugrov at the Embassy this morning, he said Yevtushenko was still coming." James M. Stuart, chairman of the symposium, said yesterday. "Since then, of course, I've found out differently," he added...
...Rector McDonald vetoed as "imprudent" a proposed C.U. symposium on evolution and Christian theology during the Darwin centennial in 1959-while similar symposiums were held at three other Catholic universities (Fordham, Duquesne, and Chicago's Loyola). ¶ Sociologist Father Raymond Plotvin was forced to withdraw from a major study of family planning in cooperation with Jesuit Georgetown University. Reason: McDonald refused to approve Plotvin's request for a Ford Foundation grant to study "family size preference of American Catholic college girls" because the subject was "too controversial...