Word: exam
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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 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
ARTFUL equivocations art 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...
Under state and city law, only police captains who score highly on the Massachusetts civil service exam are eligible to become chief. As a result, only three officers are currently eligible to succeed Chief Anthony G. Paolillo, who will retire later this year...
Under the old system, officers were promoted according to the results of a civil service exam. The scores of the officers taking the exams were ranked in order on a list, and promotions were made in order until the list was used up and then new tests were administered...
...NOTEBOOK: Following Tuesday's game against Dartmouth, Harvard will have a two-week layoff...The team has decided to skip the ECAC's and will instead set up possible scrimmages along with their regular practice schedule. "Exam period is tough," Berkery said. "Now we have some time off to prepare."..And then comes the real test, the NCAA Final Four May 19-20 in Princeton...