Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paused for a bite of chicken fried rice. "When I lost the game," he continued, "the whole pattern came clear. The whole dull routine, class to class, book to book, learn a few facts and bull your way through an exam which doesn't make sense anyway. I decided to give it up for awhile, to stay in bed and read some books carefully and listen to some records...
...Columbia University "accepted his resignation" as an assistant professor of English, hundreds of students held a rally for him. (But one leaned out of a dorm window and cried, "Hey, Charlie's going to be in the quad tomorrow to give out the answers to the Comparative Lit exam.") Officials of several colleges hinted that they would welcome his job applications. Among them: St. John's, the "great books" college in Annapolis, Md., where he took his B.A. In Manhattan, a new magazine called Leisure asked Van Doren to write a column titled "The Intellect at Leisure...
...Student Council plan to relieve pressure on study space and highly demanded books in Lamont, widener, and House Libraries may gain approval in time for Reading and Exam Periods...
...Hour exam season, which reliable sources say is upon us, is not the time for somber flicks of the Ingmar Bergman, Pather Panchali vein. When the temporarily industrious student forsakes his books for two hours at the Brattle or the U.T., he doesn't want to be provoked, moved or disturbed. He wants and needs to be diverted and amused. With remarkable judgment, the Brattle has managed to select a film for this week which not only accomplishes these ends but also is an intelligent and witty commentary on our times...
...thirty-nine minutes, he concentrated perfectly. "Gradually," he decided, "I'm developing study habits. In fact, after this exam period, I'll probably spend twelve hours each day reading." Vag spent twenty minutes thinking of all the books he wanted to read, than twenty more trying to remember their authors...