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Gentlemen: 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...
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 or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult...
Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. The following op-ed, “Beating the System,” won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when it irked one maligned and anonymous grader enough to reply...
Reading period is not yet over but dilapidated Dartboard has a message for professors preparing for next semester’s courses: keep your sleep, food and, most importantly, given the gorgeous weather, sunlight-deprived students in mind. Final exam, final paper, final classes. It’s May, so pick...
...reading and exam period slip into Senior Week, the class committee will again try to enliven the end of seniors’ time at Harvard. While early signs, including the selection of Will Ferrell to be Class Day speaker, indicate a promising Senior Week, the class committee will do well to remember the dissatisfaction the soiree and the distribution of tickets have engendered and to tread more cautiously in the future. And to help insure an excellent few final weeks for the Class of 2003—and all subsequent seniors—Harvard should provide additional funds and whatever...