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Does this mean all 6000 of us have to trudge back to Mem Hall soon for another bout with the camera? Nope, according to Maureen Granfield of the Term Bill Office. She says there is "no way" of that happening. Folks in Holyoke Center say any students with particularly low embossments can come in and use the i.d. office's own machines to get new cards. The rest of us will just have to make...
...Harvard examinations system is designed, according to its promulgators to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Mem approaching the examination, problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first, choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
Unseasonably warm weather, prompted by the heightened greenhouse effect underway, persists into the new year. The polar ice caps begin to melt, flooding Canada and parts of downtown Cambridge. Harvard Facilities Maintenance men work 'round the clock to keep paths to the libraries and Mem Hall passable. Reading Period, cancerlike, festers into exam period. Students refuse to take exams for the first three days until their biological clocks have completed the full two-week cycle...
...book's shortcomings. As leisurely and sinuous in its flow as the Ganges, sometimes crashing through rapids, more often meandering into tributaries, Jewel does on occasion get bogged down in its own complexities. In the middle episodes, when the action closes in on Layton and four other mem-sahibs, the show could be mistaken for a provincial soap opera, and a brackish one at that. Sometimes too it parades a kind of sincerity that teeters on melodrama. Symbols are spelled out, symmetries underlined, characters displayed with embarrassing nakedness. Merrick never tires of proclaiming his lower-class origins, and Kumar...
...past nine summers, the one-and-a-half mile section of Mem Drive next to the River Bend Park has been blocked off on Sundays between 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The intention was to allow residents of Cambridge to enjoy the park without the nuisance of traffic on the drive...