Word: bluebooks
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...undergraduates will start to scrawl their final exams, turning out messy little bluebooks decorated with illegible calligraphs. This is a fine old tradition since it encourages section men to strain their eyes--which either develops their eye muscles or keeps optometrists employed, both noble effects. Furthermore, the bluebook scrawl preserves the graders' traditional right to punish an undergraduate for bad penmanship. This results in suffering for both graded and grader, and suffering, as we all know, is a part of growing up, which is good...
...domestic news service, headed by Chief of Correspondents Lawrence Laybourne. Including as they do reporters, news editors, city editors and even a few managing editors, these "stringers" (an old newspaper name for correspondents paid on the basis of pasted-up strings of their clippings) might well comprise a bluebook of the U.S. working press...
...first-level restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, high above the rooftops of Paris, 200 guests gathered last week to honor a hero of aviation, Dr. Theodore von Karman, who had reached his 75th birthday. The guest list read like a bluebook of aviation, and most of the guests, now generals, admirals, statesmen or heads of corporations, had known and admired Von Karman and his eccentric genius for decades. Without the principles of aerodynamics that he discovered, they could not be building or flying high-speed modern aircraft...
...They are people who have gone through several years of college without acquiring the ability to express their thoughts in coherent prose. And it is a well known fact of Harvard man ship that the grades go not always to the brilliant, but to those who can fill a bluebook with language that neither confuses or bores a grader...
...consequences of this trip to the archives go beyond depriving some professors of an annual bluebook bonfire. Students should now be given back their books. No longer will the reasoning behind a particular grade be the secret of a grader, pried from him only a specially-arranged meetings. If a student is to write for three hours, he deserves to know where he failed or succeeded. Under the new University regulation, or lack of it, there is no reason that he must be deprived of this knowledge any further...