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...pulp fiction and an unrivalled assortment of detective novels which came from the library of an egyptologist named George A. Reisner '89. Reisner died during the war and left the University crates of material, crates that held no hieroglyphs. Instead, his bounty was the arcana of Rex Stout, Dashiell Hammett and the rest, all conveniently graded by the good professor. The Clue of the Bricklayer's Aunt got a B, but David Hume's Goodbye to Life received a straight A on the inside cover...
From there, scribbling students take over. And the boys who count the receipts at Hammett's--if not the graders--are hoping that undergraduates will get a chance to write...
...junior executive at the school supplies firm recalls that a Harvard undergraduate wrote him a few years ago complaining that he could have passed the examination had Hammett's been nice enough to manufacture larger blue books. The boys in the front office still chuckle over that...
...Harvard's yearly supply, 310,000 books are printed "with revisions," which is Hammett Talk for the memorable salutation...
About now--as in January--the stock of exam books at the Hammett factory is quite low. Not only are employees kept busy rebuilding the inventory, but they also publish thousands of school diplomas in May (not Harvard...