Word: exams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty of these were rejected for flunking the physical exam or not having permission from their parents. Most of those who didn't show up gave "weakness from hour exams" as their excuse. After the actual blood-letting, the blood jars were packed in dracked ice for half an hour and then sent in pre-cooled chests to the State laboratories in Jamaica Plain...
Princeton's ability to mix hard work with rah-rah is its distinctive feature. Often students do both at once. Since the days of a famous grind named Poler, Princetonians have spontaneously celebrated "Poler's Recess" at 11 p.m. every night during exam-period grinding: ten minutes of fireworks, blasting radios, and communal noisemaking in the best tradition of the frustration-aggression theory...
Curley also gained national prominence for going to jail twice in his political career. The first jail sentence was, in a sense, his springboard to fame. In 1904, when he was in the State Legislature, Curley, and an unrelated Tom Curley took civil service exams for two constituents. It was common practice in those days for a ward boss to take such an exam in lieu of one of his following who couldn't read of write. But a clerk recognized the two Curleys and forthwith, the two were judged guilty in a spectacular trial and sent to serve...
Prospective methods to decentrate Harvard learning from the lecture halls and infuse it into the student's daily activities include, among other things, more concentration meetings and the organization of pre-exam discussion groups...
...This move definitely reflects an attempt to improve undergraduate economics instruction over anything it has been since the war," Dunlop said. "The reading assignment will help integrate the student's entire economics course, and he will now know what is expected of him in the exam...