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Investigation shows that the Radcliffe girl is not quite so astonishing as she's built down to be. Teachers at Harvard and the "Annex" agree that there's more conscientious work across the Common, but less originality. Classroom reaction is slower, and a challenging bluebook slams a section man's ideas far less often. There's an old story for that: the lecturer got so darn sick of the plodding, noting, reactionless class that he dove off into a fantastic peroration. His class ended with fancy flying far from fact in a completely imaginative vein. And the Radcliffe students calmly...
...Gentlemen, the examination is over," boomed out the inexorable voice. Vag scribbled a last "thus it is clearly obvious that . . .," and closed the bluebook, carefully not looking over the previous pages...
...proctor was looking a little impatient as Vag walked up to hand him the bluebook, and he stared down the pacifying smile which seemed to say, "After all, I don't hold it against you personally." But Vag didn't mind, and even gave the man a sympathetic thought as he strolled out of the exam room--probably a grad student, he reflected...
...Bluebook blues" is not only a fake malady. Exams only intensify what Dr. Bock believes are the ever-present problems of the undergraduate. "Year after year we try to explain, but they don't listen to us," he said. They stay up all night, feeding on coffee, coca-cola, caffein tablets, and benzedrine sulfate." If students would go to bed around 11 o'clock instead of cramming. Dr. Bock feels that they would do better on the exams next morning...
...need in his field, there will be no exemption granted. Even for medical students there isn't blanket deferment--each case is decided individually and locally. Those who register in July, then, as well as registrants who will be reclassified, must study their home area as well as their bluebook postcards in trying to predict the length of the remainder of their scholastic life...