Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster, last year's Straus trophy winner, remains in a strong position to repeat as winter sports resume after the exam period layoff...
Weakened by exam period lay-offs and the loss of regular lightweights Ed Keating and Dick Adams, the varsity held the polished West Pointers through the early minutes of each match but folded after the six minute mark...
...running according to schedule on the afternoon following his first exam. Mockmouse had surrounded himself in this sanctum with the material necessary to atone for three months of leisure. Late into the night he had bent his pudgy frame over Sanskrit 109. Then at four a.m. he had given up and gone...
...grew hollow-eyed and desperate. First he flunked his Slavic, then his Sanskrit 109. When he returned to his room, the painters were still there. The necessity of keeping painters working indoors during the winter months was the reason, they explained. There was little point in taking the last exam. So he left a forwarding address, and departed for Mexico to get his education among the natives in an unpainted adobe...
...publishing policies, the Harvard University Press is sure of only two things: a high place in the publishing trade and its local confusion with the Harvard Printing Office. Never the proprietor of actual printing presses, the Press has long been identified by students as the place where posters, exam schedules and the like are made up. "Just once," complains a Press official, "I'd like the subject of my job to come up at a party without being congratulated for the clever way in which we manage to keep track of all the times and places that courses meet...