Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Student exam stories are of the "there but for the grace of God" school:--about the boy who slept through his exam on the steps of Mem Hall, or the hopped-up case who wrote his answers on one line...
Many of these are unconscious--for example, the boy who wrote of Moby Dick that "Ahab met his death at the hands of the whale," On orals especially, unwariness can be deadly. On an American History oral, someone gave the date for the transcontinental railroad as 1840. "Why did the Forty-Niners go around the Horn?" he was asked...
Trapped, the boy stated that it was because of the high rates. "And of course, they didn't have Pullmans in those days," he added lamely...
Spelling errors crop up yearly. One undergraduate in statistics, obviously concentrating too heavily in science, wrote of a "tetrachloric correlation." And a Soc Rel section man saw a reference--probably by a boy from Michigan--to a "Deus ex mackinaw." Or perhaps he lived near the girl who wrote of ancient Troy's Scalamander River...
...another English history exam, students were asked to show how the power of Parliment increased under the sovereignty of the Tudors. To one boy, it all boiled down to this: "Elizabeth's first Parliament begged her to marry, advice it would never have dreamed of giving her father...