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IHAVE, 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--rather 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply: `It Is Time to Disillusion' | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

...some of which may have broken loose, circulated through the bloodstream and begun to infiltrate other organs. A mammogram can detect pinpoint tumors that are less than 0.5 cm (0.2 in.) across, often well before the process of metastasis has started. This is not to say that a manual exam by a doctor or the woman herself is a waste of time. Such exams can sometimes turn up tumors missed by X rays. But the early-detection capability ^ of mammography clearly saves lives. A 1987 study found that for women whose tumors were discovered early by mammograms, the five-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breast Cancer: A Puzzling Plague | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...people would say that they are more concerned with exams than Saudi Arabia, yet the fear of war itself is probably much greater than any one exam grade," said James M. Larowe...

Author: By Benjamin O. Davis, | Title: Jan. 14, Not Jan. 15, Worries Students | 1/11/1991 | See Source »

...this point in time, the exams are more on my mind, but if you had asked me a week ago, I would have said Saudi Arabia," said Thomas W. Madsen '94, voicing a common sentiment of students now feeling the exam crunch...

Author: By Benjamin O. Davis, | Title: Jan. 14, Not Jan. 15, Worries Students | 1/11/1991 | See Source »

Like most Harvard students, both Crimson squadswill be inactive during exam period and willresume their seasons February 1, when Gordon Trackwill be the site of the Greater BostonChampionships. That's right--yet anotheropportunity to establish the pecking order on thelocal track scene

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: Thinclads Split Meets With Northeastern | 1/9/1991 | See Source »

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