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...opponents is always fun, and has a slight predictive value as well. The Crimson comes off well from such a comparison: the teams' only significant common opponent has been Amherst, whom the Tigers defeated by only 6 to 3 on the Princeton home courts. The Crimson was able to pile up the same margin playing away at Amherst. On the other hand, the Princeton-Amherst match was early in the season, and neither team had, as the cognoscenti put it, "jelled...
Meanwhile, down in the far recesses of the store basement, empty Coke bottles continue to pile up. The count now stands at 150 cases. As soon as they save enough, the brothers plan to send them in with their 6,969 boxtops and get a toy submarine...
Artful Equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam #40. Then our lynx-eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such: but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now, one such might be droll enough...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--. (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C--a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." The whole thing boils down to human rights...
...perhaps the biggest hazard of all is a visual one. To look around at the beginning of a test, to see people bringing in apples to munch while they continue typing with one hand, to watch pile after pile of the Yellow Pages, and to look at the friendly stopples protruding from the ears in front, is to reconsider criticism of the undergraduate policy...