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 co-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the bad guys--rather then one of you. If your graders have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
ARTFUL EQUIVOCATIONS are even worse; lynx-eyed sly rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then your 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 or 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...
...going to take a lot of concentration for us to win," Harvard Coach Dave Fish said. "Because of our exam schedule, other schools get there long before us, and they have a real chance to get used to the heat...
Students also say they enjoy the tranquility of living away from campus during busy reading and exam periods--a benefit that becomes crucially important when thesis-writing time rolls around...
...council decided that because this year's winter reading period was shorter than the typical reading period, another year of the shorter exam periods would provide better information about its desirability, Fox said...