Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exam-wise upperclass veterans had warned 'Cliffe freshmen that finals were no pink tea, and one earnest young scholar took the counsellors at their word...
...bluebooks were dealt out at her first exam, she extracted the standard tools from the pocket of her blue jeans--pen, pencils, eraser, postcard. Then, unwrapping a dainty, paper-sheathed parcel, she laid on her writing board a spoon, a pink cup and saucer, a small white packet of sugar, a pink napkin. Beside, them she stood a thermos of piping hot coffee...
This year the Hygiene Department reports a lower number of exam-time casualties than it can over remember. Flu is almost absent, and though the danger of an epidemic or a pandemic is always there, that is hardly the point. It seems that for some reason Stillman always has its greatest influx of customers during the last couple of weeks in January. Some of the unfortunate take too much benzedrine, others find the Infirmary the safest place to be during a final, but a larger number are real victims of the psychological pressure of examinations...
...down and two to go, Vag thought as he marked up his calender. He circled two dates and ran an exclamation point down through his last exam. Looked at one reading list, but don't even remember where I put it. Vag pecked underneath his blotter and back of the beer cans on the window still. Have to go farther back than that, Vag mused, and started looking through his desk. Going to be one of those long nights again. Reading lists for Reading Period, went the phrase, but it still, wasn't too late if he hurried. He looked...
...Stand up and relax, the exam isn't tomorrow." His roommate banged into the room, articulating something about a new time for Vag's section. Vag tossed his pencil behind the desk again and noosed up his tie. "Let's go get drunk," he said...