Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...variables exerting an undue influence on the student's performance. The weather, the digestion of the last meal, a strong or weak reaction to sudden tension, or even the way a girl sounded on the phone last night--all these can play a huge role in the quality of work produced on an exam...
...still draw together his material and produce a comprehensive essay. A pre-assigned topic assumes that, even with foreknowledge, the assignment is sufficiently difficult to demand creative thought while allowing a student to shape and direct his pre-exam studying. This system simply gives more time to the summary work, spreading the synthesis over weeks instead of 180 minutes...
...term paper is of all these alternatives best adapted to a sustained effort on independent work. If the topic is narrow, the student must demonstrate sufficient grasp of the wider range of the course to treat intelligently one aspect of it. If the broad synthesis itself is assigned, the student has accomplished essentially the same things that he would on an exam, but with the elimination of the irrelevant variables...
Many attempts in the past to do this sort of thing have failed, Edward L. Croman '60, president of the Student Council stated, because people "have ignored the interhouse character of the social structure." If the committee finds that it cannot work within this structure, he continued, the attempt will have to be abandoned as futile...
...tenor and fluegelhorn in free canon, while low sopranos, altos and low violins tremolandi move about restlessly. The peculiar, dark tone of the fluegelhorn (alto bugle) is oddly appropriate in this setting of the most terrible portions of the text. But the canons are the heart of the work. These are uncompromisingly bare of ornamentation, often unaccompanied; every consideration is excluded except the row and its transformations into lines and combinations of lines. This might be the point to ask: Does the piece have anything to say? The formal, declamatory style is not particularly friendly, nor are the most ingratiating...