Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eliot House was in danger of being thrown out of college because his scholarship was taken away. "Karp" rounded up the money to keep him going. Another time, when "Karp" was giving a night school course in Russian history, he got a badly mangled final exam paper from one of his quainter pupils: a white-haired old school marm. She sent him a post card, admitting that she hadn't done very well, but saying she didn't know why. What could the Professor do? He didn't know: He gave her a C plus...
...printing with the publisher's permission Click's imaginary photograph of Professor Sorokin's entrance exam, no impudence was intended or implied by the Crimson. The article was of general news interest...
Instead of doing kitchen police duty in Camp Edwards, successful Air Cadets are made commissioned officers at $205 a month. But only 50 per cent of the applicants pass the thorough physical exam which requires perfect eyesight, 64 to 74 inches of height, a good physique, and at least "12 natural, opposing teeth." Lacking in the exam are the old-time tricks such as firing a pistol next...
College students may take advantage of a special ruling which provides that one's appointment may be deferred until the end of the college year, if he takes his physical exam in the winter. If, by chance, an especially good job in a defense industry turns up, the applicant may have his active duty postponed indefinitely even after appointment. But once the trainee has begun the course, he must carry through the required three years of service...
...some twenty-odd men who had been present for more than a dozen exposures. One member of the class was employed there as an usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared in a Geography 1 midyear exam question--the correct answer being to note the theatre's ideal location midway between Harvard Square and Charlestown Navy Yard. But that strategic site has not always been the convening place of sailors on leave and students on sprees...