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...these races are requested to sign early so that the heats may be arranged. Although the regatta is considered to be inter-House competition, the winners will not represent House teams, but will be individual victors. All men who expect to enter the regatta must sign up in the bluebook at the Weld boat house...
...correcting test papers. The section man is mentally alert to judge the first paper with the best of his critical ability; by the twentieth his senses are dulled and there is little correlation with any of the other papers he has marked. The tendency to judge carefully each succeeding bluebook decreases...
...taking an examination? His mission is to receive; not to give, and the more he receives with a minimum of effort the more successful he is. What would his wanderings profit the Student Vagabond if he were to dispense such precious knowledge in so fruitless form as a bluebook? Perish the thought! And may the next infidel be confined in solitary imprisonment in Memorial Hall until he admits his error...
...next day and the next the same thing happened. Not until the bluebooks were falling thick and fast on the table could the proctor find anything wrong, and then--just one terrifying stare from the unknown eyes, and the discovery that there was a blue-book too many. the mysterious being could change its shape at will for never did he appear twice in the same form. Once a section man thought he recognized the features of a freshman who had been run over by a trolley car; another swore he saw a man who had been expelled last June...
...none of these has taken affect, but my men are on the point of mutiny from another reason. Those tiny diabolical maupaasants and balance, of short range but exquisite torturing power, even to the most hardened bibliophile, are driving them to the point of madness. . . . I am planning this bluebook in the hands of my sleekest section...