Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fencing team faces a grueling ten match schedule in February after the exam period hiatus. The opening round takes place on February 5 when the Crimson return to the graveyard of lost fencing teams, New York City, to take on national champion NYU on its home ground...
...Harvard hockey team skated into the exam period break in style last night by pouring in four goals in the third period to rout St. Lawrence, 7-1. Junior Bobby McManama led the scoring parade with his second hat trick of the season...
...definite factor in tonight's game will be the Crimson's pre-exam blues. "It's impossible to maintain the right competitive attitude during reading period," captain Paul explained. "On a normal game day, when I get back from the four o'clock training meal. I think about the game and maybe relax by listening to some records. But now I have to spend that time studying for exams, and it makes a big difference...
Three years ago freshmen parents received an HSA letter offering, for a not-so-slight fee, to surprise their offspring with boxes of goodies to help relieve the pressures of exam period. The letter, a classic of its genre, evoked Dickensian images of gaunt orphans on scholarships assembling goodies all night in dank cellars, while completing math problem sets with their toes. The goodies, of course, were actually preassembled by one of the many fly-by-night outfits which, with the help of inside units such as HSA, annually rip off students and their naive parents for millions of dollars...
...opening dual match, the Crimson rolled to an easy 23-14 triumph over Virginia. After its first collegiate shutout under coach John Lee, the squad's season record stands at 5-3-1 with a match at MIT Tuesday before exam break...