Word: exam
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...first one for the Crimson since January 10 when the Dartmouth Indians grabbed the opening league game 34 to 31 in the Indoor Athletic Building. Tufts, on the other hand, has not been laid off so long, and is expected to cause plenty of trouble for the exam-ridden Feslermen...
When he was a student at Harvard. Robert Benchley was once asked on an exam to discuss the international law of the North American Fisheries case. He wrote in his blue book: "I know nothing of the North American Fisheries and less about international law, but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you the fishes' point of view." He did, and his blue book was so funny that the professor gave him a passing grade. --Christian Science Monitor
Last Tuesday Robert Judell '42, was preparing for an exam in History 60a (American Colonial History), which is taught by Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History. Recalling Professor Morison's interest in the West Indies where he recently duplicated Columbus' voyages. Judell shrewdly guessed that there might be a map question on the West Indies...
When he went to the Coop and asked for a map of the Carrlbean he was told that "they had all been taken for some exam," and Judell passed the word along to his friends...
...question on the exam was on the West Indies...