Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct result of your very nattering article about Caltech. One of us read it the day before taking a final examination in a course on Techniques of Plant Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin. The ego-inflating article strongly implied that there was little need to study for the exam. The exam was flunked. The other, after reading the article, came to a similar conclusion regarding a homework assignment in Quantum Mechanics at the U. of I. At the present writing, the assignment has not even been begun...
...Lowell House students narrowly escaped death and a Radcliffe graduate student was assaulted by Cambridge hoodlums, as the University rushed toward the end of exam period...
After a long exam period layoff, the varsity baseball team swings back into action this week with games against Tufts and Amherst. Following those contests, the squad will play Yale twice, at Soldiers Field a week from Wednesday and in New Haven two weeks from today...
...Lord Jeffs, who tied for the Little Three championship with Wesleyan this year. Although Amherst's season record shows eight losses against nine victories, the Lord Jeffs hold a 1-0, 11-inning decision over Yale, which defeated the varsity, 8-2, in the squad's final pre-exam contest...
When those humid winds begin to add warmth to an already unbearably exam period, little irritations seem to boil over with mounting regularity. But minor complaints, and the passions that fan them, have never seemed quite right for a coolly argued editorial. Accordingly, we have bowed to the twin gods of Research and Significance, consistently showing that reorganization of University Hall could provide the dollars for any number of revolutionary projects. Should it prove possible to support the needy with administrative salaries, that too will be advocated. The problems of the State Department have proved no more perplexing than Dean...