Word: exam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Monday I set my alarm for 7 a.m. Most Harvard students who wake up at that ungodly hour have a good reason for it, like finishing off a paper or cramming for a morning exam. I just wanted to get on line for hockey tickets...
...Bill, they don't just happen. There's a perfectly good explanation. It's called "physical fatigue." It might also be called "scheduling stupidity." Time was that we played the Beanpot immediately after exam break. We were rusty, they were sharp. We usually lost. For the last five years we have found a new way to lose. We schedule games on Friday and Saturday nights before the Beanpot. Before the final we tried even harder to lose: games against numbers three and four in the ECAC in Upstate New York, a punishing loss to Colgate in overtime, and a long...
Harvard held the first-place position for three weeks in January, after beating then-top-ranked St. Lawrence, 5-1, right before exam break. But the Crimson slipped in the polls when it lost to Yale in its first game after the two-week layoff, and has hovered in the second and third spots ever since...
...reading period drags on, the tension gets thicker. If you have only one exam, you get stressed out rereading the material for the fourth time. If you have four exams and three papers, you worry about being able to read everything once...
...students have also criticized ETS for notnotifying colleges when a student has been caughtcheating on an exam. The SAT allows students todesignate colleges where they wish their scores tobe forwarded...