Word: exam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exams will be given: in the morning a scholastic aptitude test consisting of an oral quiz and a written math exam; in the afternoon a scholastic achievement test which covers literature, languages, History, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences, with some options being being given...
...remark that the purpose of a college education is to "make you a gentleman", his definition of a gentleman being apparently one who pays another to do what he should do himself. This is not such a bad definition. But although the tutor's method of studying for the exam may not have yielded him the maximum intellectual return, it may be doubted that purely social ambitions drove him to seek further learning. If he went to learn, the tutee had better recant, for he is betrayed. It not, the Professor giving the course must feel very flattered. THERSITES
...strongest point winners is expected to be Emile Dubiel, if and when he can compete. Al Northrop, a great miler, is in the same capacity, but both are expected to be eligible after the exam period...
...there would be no neatly printed exam papers, appearing so severly fresh and clean after a hectic night at the Widows. There would be no notifications of overdue termbills, no announcements of visiting lecturers, no placards for bulletin boards, and no latest books by your tutor...
Reports show an astonishing increase in deposited wads after examinations. Students evidently seek solace from nervous tension in gum-chewing. Rather significant, however, is the fact that the number of wads in Memorial Hall after an exam cannot compare with the number deposited in Sever and the New Lecture Hall. The awe-inspiring nature of the edifice must exert a restraining influence on the chicle-grinders. Especially heavy sufferers from deposits during exams are the so-called "examination boards" laid across armrests for the occasions...