Word: exam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It's time to disillusion...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
Although a two week exam break lies just ahead, before the Harvard men's hockey team can stop to savor the joys of studying, it must again venture into the Frozen North...
...great meet for us," Harvard coach Maura Costin Scalise said. "Going into exam period can be stressful. We focused well and exceeded my expectations...
...past, students have asked professors to be excused [from the exam] to pray," Khan says. "Many students take the time to pray somewhere in the building...