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...teaching fellow knows that too. Now, the teaching fellow could keep quiet. Each student would guess at the 20 articles which will be most important, so that no two students will have read more than five articles in common. They'll all be petrified at the exam because they'll each be prepared to answer at best a third of each question and they'll do miserably. There will be no pattern to the ignorance and grading will be difficult. The professor will be horror-struck and his response will be to assign more readings. A situation like this...
...Crimson (4-7 overall, 2-3 Ivy) seeks its third consecutive victory tonight after close pre-exam triumphs over Yale and Dartmouth. With the past two one-goal wins, which followed heartbreaking losses to Boston College, Princeton, and Brown, the skaters have proven a knack to prevail in close contests...
...real cold out on Mass Ave at 4:30 in the afternoon with an exam staring you in the face. Not the kind of cold that the river sends up through the gates of Winthrop House and up Holyoke St., the type that sends you into the bank to cash more money than you should just because you need someplace warm to stand, but cold enough...
...usual graduate-school scenario: three university professors facing down one anxious scholar during the dread oral exam on some deservedly obscure topic. Who cared? The President of Egypt, for one. And if Anwar Sadat figured the rest of his country should also take an interest, who was going to argue? Thus when First Lady Jehan Sadat, 47, defended her master's thesis (on the influence of English Romantic Poet Shelley on Arabic literature), the entire 2¼ hours were presented on national TV. At the end of the program, Anwar's angel got an A. Predictably, sniped some...
...Crimson enters its exam period mode beginning today. Next week, we'll publish Monday, Wednesday and Friday, closing out the semester with Monday and Wednesday issues during the last week of exams...