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...usual, the parodies of other publications are the strongest pieces. The best one is that of the CRIMSON's own Confi Guide. Unfortunately, this one was cribbed almost word-for-word (and sketch-for-sketch) from a Poon of several years ago. But the University Gazette takeoff is marvelous; it captures that publication's "optimistic and resolute" hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil tone as the world collapses around it. An imaginative Harvard Register parody attempts to portray the Dean of Freshmen as an old-fashioned aristocrat. Their Courses of Instruction is weak, not even as funny...
...wholly erroneous statement on page 6 of the Confi Guide that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had voted last year to grant credit for all Advanced Placement awards must be corrected. Since approximately one-half of all the undergraduate body received Advanced Placement awards, this statement appears to be creating misplaced hopes and imprudent curricular planning on the part of hundreds of undergraduates...
...earnestly hope no student will place his degree in jeopardy by planning a program on the erroneous and misleading information printed in the last paragraph of the section entitled "Advanced Standing" in the Confi Guide...
...love it. I recommend it to my friends," a Harvard sophomore said of the Confi Guide. "The nastiest, most unprintable garbage I've ever seen," snarled an unidentified Lowell House tutor...
...have to make up their minds about courses earlier than in the past, perhaps after the first week of reading period and would do so on the basis of their observation of the lecturer, the reading lists, the synopses, an actual stab at the reading and perhaps even the Confi Guide! Students wishing to drop courses later in the year would be permitted to take make-up exams...