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Trials of candidates for parts in the play will be held this week. New candidates may sign up in the blue-book in Leavitt and Peirce's for try-outs at hours there announced. The cast will be picked next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FIESTA" IS SELECTED FOR FALL PRODUCTION | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

...clock in the Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building, the Dramatic Club will open its year's activities. The heads of the various departments will explain to candidates the work of the competitions, which will start tonight. Candidates for the cast will sign up in the blue-book in Leavitt & Peirces' for two-minute tryouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Begins Activities | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...each heat to row in the finals tomorrow afternoon. Medals will be awarded to the winners of each class of boat, all members of the University being allowed to compete. About 30 have signed up for entries so far, and men may still apply by signing in the blue-book at the manager's desk in Weld Boathouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCULLING REGATTA WILL BEGIN TODAY | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

...than the acquisition of a certain amount of education. Of course, if Divisionals be considered synonymous with Education, my objection falls flat. But I doubt if even the most sanguine of us believes that the true essence of a man's education can be poured into three hours of blue-book writing-if indeed it is of so tangible a nature that it can be written in black and white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 5/31/1924 | See Source »

...human nature that there are many men to whom the trick of writing a good examination must-always remain a mystery. There, of course, lies the first unfairness. Give me for a few hours a man who has a certain natural wit; and I can teach him enough blue-book "fricks" to guarantee him as pass over the man who knows his work thoroughly, can speak it and ever use it to advantage, but cannot write it as the correctors of blue-books would have it written. And I have written and corrected too many blue-books myself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 5/31/1924 | See Source »

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