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...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. It is time to disillusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

...Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: Imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

...remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

Contestants’ talents ranged from singing to stripping. Mr. Adams, Thomas P. Lowe ’05, belted out the classic “New York, New York” before flinging off his blue jacket, while McCambridge gyrated and thrusted to work-out music along with Mr. Dunster, Dane J. Skillrud...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Currier Claims Mr. Harvard | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...contestants opted for nontraditional formal-wear—Workman, clothed in denim shorts and a large black wig, was escorted down the aisle by a gorilla. Lowe chose to cavort down the steps in a glamorous drag costume, and McCambridge soared to the stage dressed as the Winthrop Superhero Mr. Incredible...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Currier Claims Mr. Harvard | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

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