Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Americans have an unholy passion for quizzes, puzzles, and question-answer games. Information Please and the Time current affairs tests are as much a part of American life as Charlic McCarthy and carter's Little Liver Pills. Even college students with examination jitters will tolerate quizzes if they are sugar-coated and the answers don't have to be written in bluebooks...
...worst has been said. Actually the exams are of the short-answer, check-and-underline variety. To the Senior who takes them, the Carnegie people will turn over a picture of his store of knowledge, telling how he stacks up mentally with his fellows. Admittedly the exams do not test "the ability to express ideas in writing, skill in laboratory techniques, research ability, and originality." Admittedly they are experimental even in the realm of pure knowledge. But nevertheless they were drawn up by professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, who can't all be wet. And for three seasons...
From then until the end of the game it was only a question of whether Harvard could hold their margin. The answer came with Cobb's last minute shot and the overtime disaster
...exams, which are taken in two half-day sessions, are of the objective short-answer variety, designed to test the student's general grasp of the principal subjects taught in the liberal arts college, as well as the extent of his knowledge in certain of the fields of concentration...
...answer is No. Students, admittedly, didn't know all the facts and figures. Nor did most of them want to. All they knew was that ten brilliant men had been pinched off between the slide-rule and the axe, and would leave great gaps that could never he filled by renumbering courses. Take the English Department, for example. Four assistant professors were given terminating appointments last spring. All are here now Presumably two will lock up their brief-cases for the last time this spring, two more in June, 1941. This year these men are giving eight half-course...