Word: exam
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...Winnetka, Ill. "It's like somebody dying," murmured Seattle Lawyer Archie Greenlee. They had a right to be shocked: both men are parents of cadets who were suddenly dropped from the roster of the U.S. Air Force Academy last week in the wake of the widening, deepening stolen-exam scandal. At Colorado Springs, academy officials sealed off the grounds as tightly as a SAC base on alert, while special investigators from Washington grilled an estimated 700 members of the 2,500-strong cadet wing. By the end of the week 93 students had resigned from the academy - and before...
Without question, the Air Force scandal is something far worse than the 1951 cribbing uproar at West Point, where 90 cadets (including 43 football players) were expelled for exchanging exam questions. That involved an informal, illegal help-your-buddy system. But the ugly Air Force incident at Colorado Springs was a clear case of common, profit-motivated theft...
When the last Soc Sci 119 student surenders his bluebook to the proctors in Burr A this afternoon, the longest Fall term reading-exam period in living memory will be over. Everyone agrees that it has been fun. After Christmas some of us come to know our courses for the first time. Abstract catalogue titles suddenly turn into hard-headed realities of lecture notes and reading lists. The rest of us take a fresh look at what we have been doing since September, able to develop a critical overview once details are carefully mastered. January is a time for "putting...
...much of a good thing makes Jack a dull, ulcer-ridden boy. After three weeks of concentrated intellectuality exams begin to seem anticlimatic. Dining halls fill up instantly at 12:00 and 5:30 with studiers looking for lowgrade oral satisfactions to break the tedium. In the spring escapists can lounge along the Charles; in January the only alternatives are to check into the Brattle or turn to gin, either dealt or sipped. If the University wants to indulge us, it ought to cut a week out of reading and exam periods and add it to intersession, when the relaxing...
Exactly what the term "wonk" signifies, of course varies with who uses the word; it can denote anything from all those who got a better grade on the last hour exam than the speaker to a bonafide anal compulsive bookworm. Generally speaking, the term applies to a sort of drab toiler of limited cosmic vision, whose main concern in life is his academic grade average...