Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There always comes a time toward the end of the reading period when the enlightened wastrel begins to think less about the subject he is surveying and more about the exam. Even the diligent student becomes less concerned with knowing his courses and more with simply appearing to know. This brings them both around to the problem of how to outwit the grader, a problem which is met in one of three ways: 1. By appealing to his vanity as a scholar, which makes it difficult for him to admit that he doesn't know exactly what you are talking...
Since that effort, the College has settled down to more staid Pogo riots, but in the past week other schools have taken up the newest college fad as the perfect outlet for blowing off pre-exam steam...
...Advocate have each won the prize once. Two years ago, the CRIMSON won the prize for its first Academic Freedom survey, while last year Donald Carswell '50 received the award for his "Beating the System," a treatise on examsmanship, or the art of taking (and passing) a Harvard exam...
There is a distinguished set at the Medical School whose members got there without ever passing a Chem course or struggling through an aptitude exam. They never take the Hippocratic oath yet cheerfully devote their lives to the cause of humanity...
This year, regrettably, the exam listings took their final form before Burr Hall became available, and consequently the new lecture rooms are not scheduled for use. Despite this, however, there is no reason for the transferring the three non-Fine Arts courses, now assigned to Fogg, to Burr Hall. Although changes in location usually involve some confusion, there is still plenty of time to give students advance notice. And if the University still has qualms when the time comes for those exams, it can nail a sign to the Fogg portico announcing the change in unmistakable terms. And when undergraduates...