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...Lamont’s later hours also had more wide-ranging effects—more gates to Harvard Yard were kept open until midnight to accommodate upperclassmen using Lamont, and the student victory inspired Radcliffe students to demand later hours during their reading and exam periods as well...
...Lord Dalhousie, one of the Governors-General of India, observed that while a "member of the Civil Service in England is a clerk, a member of the Civil Service in India may be a proconsul." After passing an entrance exam in England when they were no older than 19 (the age limit, introduced in the late 1870s, was eventually raised to 23), ICS officers were soon shipped off to India's far-flung provinces to be part of what Prime Minister David Lloyd George called "the steel frame" that held the Raj together. The ICS officer was one part taxman...
...students crying foul, with a letter to the course’s professor calling the integrity of the test “severely compromised,” when it was learned that some students in the course had brought already-completed answers to several of the questions on the exam. These accusations prompted the course head, Professor of Physics Mikhail D. Lukin, to make the final exam count less towards the students’ final grades. The exam in Physics 153, “Electrodynamics,” allowed students to use their course notes and textbooks. According...
...final examination in Physics 153, “Electrodynamics” on Wednesday morning had students crying foul when it was learned that others in the course brought already-completed answers to several of the questions into the exam. The final, to which students were allowed to bring in their class notes and textbook, reused four of the questions from an exam administered in 2004, which was posted on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ online archive of previous exams. The course head, Professor of Physics Mikhail D. Lukin, said that he was unaware of the availability...
Gregory M. Bugaj ’07, who still has an exam today, said that he thought while it would be nice if the dining halls stayed open, he wasn’t too annoyed about the closing...