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Suppose you are one of the many Harvard students who illicitly uses marijuana on a regular basis. And now imagine the worst case scenario: you are enjoying a post-exam spliff in the company of friends in a private bedroom. Then, from the door, an ominous voice intones, “Open up. It’s HUPD.” You are arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But that extent, Harvard students should be well aware, varies wildly. Massachusett’s Controlled Substances Act imposes a harsh mandatory sentence...
Gentlemen: 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...
...Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx 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 or not this is a good thing...
...have been 12 governments since 1991. And the nation still nurses deep wounds. Ethnic Russians make up about one-third of the population, many of them the families of people shipped in by the Soviets to tame its breakaway tendencies. Since independence, thousands of these Russians have passed an exam to become naturalized Estonians. But some 130,000, almost 10% of the population, haven...
...wreath is frequently associated with the ideal of athletic victory in Greek art of the late Classical period.Several members of the Harvard women’s hockey team learned as much this semester as they prepare for a final exam tomorrow morning, including one of its co-captains and its leading goal-scorer.But before they sit down with their pencils and blue books, they’ll have to square off on the blue lines, when No. 4 Dartmouth (14-3-1, 12-1-0 ECAC) visits the No. 5 Crimson (14-3-1, 11-2-0) at Bright Hockey Center...