Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transformation, of course, is not instantaneous; even after the last exam postcard is sent, the rituals of Commencement and Reunion remain. President Pusey cautioned the outgoing seniors on the growth of secularism, and Ivy Orator Harold Fitzgibbons suggested that the Program could be boosted by converting Soldiers Field into a dog track. Nothing came of the second suggestion...
Acting School. After applying for a spot on the show in the fall of 1956, Stempel, then a C.C.N.Y. student, took a general information test, and did remarkably well. One night Producer Enright went to Herb's apartment and gave him another verbal exam. "Then," says Herb, "Dan leaned back and said, 'How'd you like to win a lot of money?' I said, 'Well, sure.' 'Look,' he said, 'kid, play ball with...
...applied business administration. Graduate Student David Wynne, 26, got the basic idea when he learned that Jesse Shaw, 22, an old friend from his undergraduate days at the University of Tennessee, had signed on at Peabody as night watchman. Watchman Shaw had a key to the college mailroom, where exams are mimeographed, and shortly the operation had its stock in trade. Student Wynne capitalized the venture by selling an exam and a partnership to Roommate Douglas Reeves, 25, for $20, and they lightheartedly tacked a "Wynne & Reeves, Incorporated" sign on their door. They spread word that question lists...
...days later Wynne & Reeves was just another business failure. Two students tipped off Dean of Administration William C. Jones, got $30 in expense money from him, bought a bootleg exam. The dean called the district attorney, and investigators raided the apartment, seizing Wynne and the crib sheets. They caught Reeves as he headed confidently for his last exam, armed with some of his own merchandise. The college bounced the student peddlers and fired the watchman, but by the time the bootlegging was discovered, it was too late to substitute exams. Satisfied Wynne & Reeves customers-prospective teachers all-got off scot...
...South Viet Nam a student who passes an exam is a dau; a flunkster is called a rot. A schoolchild clever enough to remain a dau through 13 years of classes and pass his bachot (baccalaureate exam) becomes a tri thuc (intellectual), and has few further worries. The young nation has a shortage of scholars and a Confucian reverence for learning, and young male tri thucs get autos, villas and high-paying jobs from rich parents of marriageable daughters...