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...paddle at summer camp. Citing an occasion when his father gave him a $20 bill, Kirstein remembers "the papery cash, its tough fibrous thinness inlaid with bits of red and green silk." The dreamy young man did not take much interest in academics, but he passed Harvard's entrance exam anyway. Once enrolled, he writes, "I felt like a minnow with the freedom to swim in whomever's wake I wanted...
...proposal--which would have moved fall semester exams back to early December and shortened reading period--had been a long time coming. It was debated extensively by the Undergraduate Council, and then by the Committee on Undergraduate Education, both of which endorsed it. It clearly reflected the desire of a majority of students to extend the winter vacation and salvage it from the stress to exam preparation...
...Boylston Library studying for an exam," Paul F. Butler '44-'46 says. "Everyone was shocked and that following Monday those of us who were excused because they knew none of us had studied for them...
...temptress comes equipped with transporter beams or with phasers set on stun. So the ending of Star Trek was an event for me, something that meritted a mental paper clip, something to plan a day around. It caught me at the right time, too. I had finished my final exam in Matter in the Universe just a day before, and although I had done my best to ignore the class for as much of the semester as possible, my final week of studying had filled my head with a welter of black holes, bent time and astral planes...
...threw the international critics into a tizz. They weren't sure they should approve of a work of popular art so enjoyably and cleverly crafted; after a week studying the snail trails of European anomie and Third World angst, watching Pulp Fiction was like sneaking out of a final exam to go on a bender...