Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carolina, where the brilliant J. Penrose Harland has taught more students (up to 658 in a single class) and flunked fewer of them than any other professor in the university's 170 years. Last month six of his students shocked the entire state by cheating on a final exam. The ingrates' defense was that everyone knew that Harland's archaeology class was not a "normal" course, in which a grade had to be earned honestly. Harland was dismayed. "If it was such a crip, why did anyone have to cheat?" he cried...
...will try, however, to obtain approval to open Lamont on Sunday mornings during exam and reading periods, another change recommended by the HCUA...
...going to be the year. All my courses are fairly interesting, but I haven't been able to muster enough energy to do even a modicum of work all year. I ended up doing all the reading for each of my courses last term the night before the exam, and I frankly doubt whether it will be any different this term...
...hourglass. Shortly, Gloria is chatterboxing Ben's ears with lists of suburban conformities: pulling crabgrass, going bowling, bed-hopping around. While they prate of the lack of communication among moderns, each spills a major grievance. Gloria's husband is an unread clod. Ben flunked a French exam that meant getting into college. When Ben and Gloria go to bed together, and then agree to meet weekly for more extracurricular love and French lessons, a double irony is consummated. Her special pride was her fidelity; his was being a self-taught genius. The Wallachs drum a tattoo of laughs...
Radcliffe apartment dwellers even find domestic chores, within limits, fun--especially when it comes to preparing a dinner party. And cake baking, although not so good, perhaps, as Humphrey Bogart flics, has turned out to be wonderful for exam period procrastination...