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Best part about Harvard: I’ve met some of the friendliest and coolest people here at Harvard.

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Norman Zhu | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

The Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men 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...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

Of course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

The equivocator would answer it in this way: “Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of the conditions around him, colored by his own personality.

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

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