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Each undergraduate is expected to be familiar with the contents of this booklet and the Handbook of Undergraduate Regulations...
EQUALLY SUGGESTIVE is the spurious reference to the Handbook of Undergraduate Regulations. Undergraduates receive such a booklet, it is true, four times, in their September registration envelopes, but few still have it in their possession by November, and virtually none is familiar with its contents. Nor is there anyone, apparently, who actually "expects" them to be--the passive voice, here as throughout Rules Relating conceals a pseudonymous or perhaps shadowy, Kafkaesque figures than those lurking among the pages of this small handbook, here surfacing as "the Senior Tutor," there as "the Administrative Board," but always making their presence felt...
...horse that everyone was focusing on was going through a series of trots and halts. I fumbled through my Ledyard '75 (the official name of the trials) handbook: move number 14, "serpentine three loops, the first and third true canter, the second counter-canter." Counter-canter, I thought sort of a ring to it, but what does it mean...
...Arthur of Troy carried Her Royal Highness from the arena, the crowd settled back to its friendly tete-a-tetes. I proceeded to thumb through my "everything you wanted to know about the equestrian life but really didn't care to ask" handbook...
...reverently returned my handbook to my camera pack and decided to track down someone who could enlighten me as to what was going on. I corraled Paul D. Weaver, Assistant Director and Controller, who put the Dressage in layman's terms. "It's basically equivalent to the compulsaries in figure skating," Weaver said. "Sort of a cross between gymnastics and ballet that incurs negative points. The least amount of penalties amassed at the end of the three days will be your winner...