Word: bluebooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...honor system. Certain of its mechanics, however, are rather less than satisfactory. There is something about the proctor who giggles over the examination paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast of inefficiency all the admirably handled examinations that preceded him. The bluebook snatcher is armed with an indisputable destiny, perhaps, but there is no reason why, in the distribution of examination papers, meticulous thumb-counting should take the place...
Candidates should sign the bluebook at Leavitt and Peirce's in order to secure a time for a reading before Mr. Massey, coach of the play...