Word: exam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individuals are more enlightening even than the figures. They establish in a majority of cases the contention that the number of steady drinkers is very small, but that men of regularly sober habits drink to excess on "certain stated occasions, such as days of football games, end of exam periods...
...here; would you light three cigarettes on one match? No, of course you wouldn't. Or plan a party of thirteen? I doubt it. Or change your crew trunks before a race? No, even if the doctor advised it. Well, it's the same way with shaving before an exam. You said the other day that you didn't hit English 28 very well; I'll bet a French franc to a Russian ruble you shaved that morning. Cut shaving, Bill; look at me: if I only had a little heavier growth and a less well-trained razor...
...hour examination is scarcely possible. The good student may have momentarily neglected the short period covered in his attention to another similar period, or to the whole matter of the course. The poor student may have found local difficulties which would have disappeared later. The judgment of an "hour exam" is but a "snap" judgment...
...rustle no doubt had an element of pleasurable anticipation in it. On the face of it this announcement appeared synonymous with the promise of a "snap exam". But when the result of a previous test, given on the same principle, was made public; grave doubts arose. It seemed as if the new saddle merely rubbed in another place and, possibly, as if the weight were better distributed...
...which could be universally applied; for there are many courses which require a more minute knowledge. These--for the most part elementary, or at least fundamental--must remain unaffected by this innovation. Beyond these, in the more general courses even, bluffing becomes easier in the new type of exam. More careful and intelligent reading and correcting of papers is a requisite...