Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that this was the best time to begin work. She acknowledged that no one had realized the extent of the difficulties the decision creates--fifty residents are seniors who will be moving on the same day with heavy furniture, coop boxes, and books. The demolition will take place during exam period. The janitor will have difficulty removing the garbage...
Unless of course it's 9:45 a.m. already and you're haven't checked the exam schedule yet. Remember how you signed up for Celtic 130 because you thought it was Celtic 100b? Well, the rest of the class is over in Lowell Lect, right now, sweating out a translation of "Deirdire." You better get moving...
Some students will obviously be hurt by this policy: Those with very high grades and very low draft exam scores. This is, however, a very small group, far smaller than the group which would be hurt by the release of class rank information. It can be argued of course that all students will be penalized by the withholding policy, for it is possible that draft boards will become incensed at Harvard's stubbornness and take out their displeasure on the individual students. Despite its reputation, however, the local board is rarely so irrational as this. In the final analysis...
Nietzache would have called it an outlet for "internalized aggression;" the Harvard "Regulations for Students" call it a reason for expulsion. But for over-worked, exam-beset Harvard students from time immemorial, it's been the Riot...
...their documentation of the counter exam answers, SDS fell into a kind of double standard that many protest organizations fall into in finding evidence for their "facts." The duplicity involved is most obvious when you hear members of SDS denounce the New York Times for misrepresenting the situation on one day, and then citing it as a source in the counter exam on the following day. The other argument which can be held against the sources chosen to support the protest position comes from the non-believer who asks why he should listen to SDS's statistical data any more...