Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elimination of the stress test is another welcomed "correction" of Chafin's new administration. The union vigorously opposed the implementation of the test, which registers physical reactions under artifical stress, during the contract negotiations last fall. HPA negotiators faulted the test for its rigidity: the patrolmen argued that the test exaggerates every small physical problem, and might be used as an excuse for disqualifying basically fit patrolmen from active duty. Harvard included the test in the contract but agreed to delay implementation until July 1979. Chafin says, however, that it will not be implemented...
...some people went out from that place and wrote these things in the book of "Confi Guide" so others might know. The fruit of English 13 should not be eaten, neither should you taste thereof. Seek for salvation in passing the English Department Bible test...
Harvard does recruit minority applicants, largely by sending minority students into high schools, public and private, to encourage those who have strong qualifications to apply. Students and administrators who do recruiting work are aided by Search Lists which have the names of many promising students (based on test scores) distributed by Educational Testing Services...
...season operns at MIT on September 20 followed by the first Ivy League test, with Columbia on September 23. The big game of the early going will be against Connecticut, in its stadium which is fondly referred to as a pit. UConn has been one of the top three teams in New England for the last five years and a Crimson win would say much about chances later against Dartmouth and Brown...
...agenda for the committees this year is the task of determining the nature of the requirements for a basic proficiency in mathematics and a foreign language-- recommended in the Core report. Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, said it is clear from a placement test in mathematics on the pre-calculus level, given to all freshmen for the first time last year, that many entering freshmen are poorly prepared in mathematics. One-third of last year's class could not answer correctly half of the questions on the test. Gleason heads a group of Faculty members...