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Word: exam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night before the Math 1a exam for a freshman who's living in the Yard and scared. He's sitting in his room, which is neat but somehow oppressive as well, and talking about...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...student is taking an exam. Detailed footnotes are required for the essay and he panics. He proceeds to make them up, a host of bogus references. After the exam, seized by a fit of Raskolnikov-like paranoia that the teacher will check up and expose his crime, he types up index cards in the Dewey Decimal system, one for each reference, and slips them into the Widener catalogue...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

After a while, he decided to switch and study for his Philosophy exam, and all of a sudden he found he could study 14 hours straight, without getting tired at all. It was amazing. He wrote his math section man asking for an excuse from the exam, but the section man said you had to have a UHS excuse and the freshman knew he had no specific disease, so there was nothing he could...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...Cahaly's several iteams are selling faster during reading and exam period: junk food, cigarettes, and anything with caffeine in it. The store has sold out its supply of No-Doz twice in the past week...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...truth is, if you want to get out of an exam, you can. "Clearly," one administrator says, "it's very easy to get a makeup exam around here. If you're tired, extremely fatigued, backache, sore throat, or any number of aches and pains, you just go to UHS, stand in line, and say you can't function. My understanding is it's like rolling off a log. The only reason more people don't do it is that you have to pay the piper with a makeup exam later on." Most people who bag exams are good students, people...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

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