Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every year Harvard undergraduates get to take a familiar test of their loyalty to the memory of the radical activists of the late '60s and early...
...test begins when Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, mails letters to the House committees and the Freshman Council, asking for nominations to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--the disciplinary board formed in 1970 to consider cases of students charged with disruption during campus demonstrations...
...students are passing the annual test of allegiance with flying colors. This week, Winthrop, North, South, Leverett, Currier and Adams Houses voted overwhelmingly to refuse to nominate students to serve on the CRR. The Student Assembly likewise voted by a large margin to urge other Houses to boycott the committee...
...been campaigning heavily since the primary, trying to shore up what he already feels is a strong constituency in the county. Ralph's name recognition should be enough for him to win, but then again, Massachusetts people have never taken kindly to the Independent label. It will be another test of the power of the Democratic party in Middlesex County, where Republicans and Independents are outnumbered three...
...science courses put undergraduates under fierce pressure. "When I came here, I felt everybody in the class was smarter than I was," recalls Senior Peter DeWees, who graduated second in his Riverside, Calif., high school class. "In the physics course, you could earn a possible 30 points on one test. I got one point." Top scorers though they are, 30% of the entering class do not graduate from Caltech. Observes Dean of Students Ray Owen: "At midyear, half the freshmen are failing math and one-third are failing physics. They are afraid, and they couple that with their uncertainty...