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...Exam Period...
...undergraduates to actually crack the system was the now-legendary Donald Carswell '50. He offered some advice to fellow exam-takers in his article, "Beating the System," for which he won the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson has been re-running it during exam periods ever since, and in 1962 it was joined for the first time by the infamous "Grader's Reply...
...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 are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynz 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...
...improve public education in a state that, by nearly every measure of academic performance, ranked near the bottom. Within a year of his election, Clinton rammed through a package of reforms that lengthened the school day and required the state's 24,000 teachers to take a controversial competency exam. To pay for the improvements, lawmakers raised the sales tax from 3 cents on the dollar to 4 cents...