Word: exam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just ahead is the festive glitter of the Christmas vacation, but hanging heavy over that are the dark clouds of Judgment Time. And so--particularly among Freshmen--there are beginning to appear the usual cases of pre-exam intellectual indigestion. Sometimes this is the result of a real hazy indetermination as to what the first semester was all about; among Freshmen more often it is a psychopathic feat that Harvard is, after all, a very hard place, too hard to get through without special medicine...
Last year it was decided to discontinue the correlation exams. Although considered unsuccessful, they had at least demanded a general knowledge of social sciences and some ability in combining the material of two different fields, which is more than can be said for the compulsory advanced course. The fact that History concentrators are spared suggests that the course was decided upon, not as a final settlement of the problem but just as some kind of a substitute for an exam which the student was no longer forced to take...
...these men particularly the Crimson has been proven to have the greatest value. Now if your life--or your shy modesty--prevents you from being included in any one of the aforementioned categories there is no need to give up all hope. Just go and get a medical exam and then trot over to 14 Plympton--the Crimson...
About 100 who signed for the course failed to survive the rigid physical exam. The remaining candidates were rated on a point credit basis for acceptance into the restricted Flight course...
...otherwise. Jackie Cooper is the butt of all situations that regularly occur in the average high school. Framed into being caught giving a teacher a "hot-seat", into having his name forged on the pawn ticket for the school's band instruments, though guilty of cribbing in an exam, he blunderingly comes out near the top, even to winning the girl, acted by Betty Field, from the popularity kid, played by one James Corner...