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...began when one student drew a large clown to cheer up an exam-wary friend, one Briggs artist said, explaining, "Everyone started drawing...
...cheery aspects of exam period is that over the years, it has inspired a lively collection of seasonal tales. Some are apocryphal, and some are founded in documented truth. All are reassuring reminders that January's misery is common to everyone and has its brighter side. Here are four of the best...
...most famous exam story concerns a student who found himself starting work on the second half of his exam in Memorial Hall, just as the proctor called out that time was up. The proctor proceeded to walk around the room, collecting all the bluebooks, but somehow he overlooked this particular student, who continued to scribble away frantically in a dark back-corner of the hall...
...some time, then, the proctor put all the blue books in order in a big pile at the front of the room, cross-checked them with the attendance list for the exam, and performed all the various other administrative duties that proctors must perform at the end of an exam. Meanwhile, the lone student scrawled away in his dark corner...
...proctor was getting ready to leave the building, about half an hour after the exam had officially ended, he noticed the delinquent student, still writing as fast as his hand could fly across the page. The proctor was shocked, and in his sternest administrator's voice, he summoned the student to the front desk. The offender lay down his pencil, picked up his blue book, and slowly trundled across the hall...