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Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. The following op-ed, “Beating the System,” won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when it irked one maligned and anonymous grader enough to reply...
...could take a dump, smear it on newsprint and deliver it to half the campus, and it would be way better than this...
...notice the way the letters made themselves. Doing paste-up with an X-acto knife that more than once sliced my finger open, smearing blood onto the layout sheet. Swiping down the dripping offset plates so they could be loaded onto the cylinders. Scrambling to scoop the fresh-newsprint-smelling pages as they swarmed off new, and then gathering them into bunches that you grasped loosely and tapped folded-edge down, so that they slid together cleanly in thick blocks and the newsprint rubbed its way into every swirl and crevice in the pads of your fingers and stayed there...
...week or so last January, that was the question on everybody's lips. After the Harvard Business School Press advanced $250,000 for a book about It--a top-secret project under development by one of the most accomplished inventors in the U.S.--reams of newsprint were devoted to speculation about what It might...
...couldn’t believe it. These, and the name of the place I work for, were the only words printed on the sheet of newsprint taped to the wall above my desk. All I could think of on my first...