Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry E. Parrish, who prosecuted the case, yesterday termed Dershowitz's contention that Reems could not have been convicted under the old court test "sheer speculation at the very best...
...This is the most important test we Christian Democrats have faced since 1948. The basic question is whether the country will be led by us or by the Communists...
...critics should spend their time writing about the individual poems and poets they would like to see being read more, and not waste their time over prizes. The question then is, should the Cantos be read? During the Bollingen controversy Robert Gorham Davis wrote that the Cantos are "a test case for a whole set of values, and stand self-condemned." But he also added an important point to the debate, that the Cantos "are important documents; they should be available, they should be read...
Plainly, the military academies have lots of company when it comes to cheating. Educators agree that intense pressure for better grades is at least partly to blame. An ill-prepared student may panic and copy from a classmate during a test simply to pass. More often, it seems, the cheater is not the marginal student but the one with aspirations for graduate school or law school...
Cheating practices are as varied as the causes. Yalies talk of the student-possibly mythical-who walked into the school print shop as exams were being run off, sat down on an inked galley and walked off with a set of test questions on the seat of his pants. Another student, totally unprepared for his exam in Chinese history, labeled...