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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of details. Men approaching the examination problem gave three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing the work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, the second takes too long...
...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various attempts whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject, might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of the generality is the man who can write a ten-page essay which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
Just exactly what our equivocator's answer has to do with the original question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes the right answer is known and marks the the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but is must never get definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...
Trouble with Glass. Hansen has been vaulting ever since he was a sixth grader in Cuero, Texas. "It's always fascinated me," he says, "because it isn't something that everybody can do. I fixed me up an old cane pole and started working out. At first, I only did distance jumping, to see how far I could go from one spot to another, using the pole to boost me along. Then my father built me a regular pit out of sand, and I was hooked." In high school, Hansen jumped 13 ft. 6 in. with a Swedish...