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...Good," said the student, and he ran over to the huge pile of exams on the front desk, threw his blue-book into the middle of the mess, and dashed out of the room...
...Harvard team which looked anything but impressive a month ago finds itself this morning with a winning record, a sixth-place perch in the ECAC, and an eight-place ranking in the nation. Now all it has to contend with are exams--the blue-book variety--and the thought of BU a week from Monday. Happy Reading Period...
...sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" Be Specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course needn't be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your blue-book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; Don't just say "Medieval cathedrals," name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood...
...music-which is alternately light and serious, old and new-is as pleasant as an international blend of good coffees. The trio sings in half a dozen languages, from carillon French (The Monks of St. Bernard) to olive Portuguese (Curimã) to blue-book English: "It's not that she won't, young man," go the surprisingly workable lyrics of Hey Li Lee Li Lee, "it's that she has so many unresolved problems in her personality structure that it makes it very difficult for her to achieve a decision in a time of intensified emotional stress...
Nothing is more critical to this program than good teachers. When a professor who has the student's confidence criticizes a piece of work, if only for a minute, the effect is infinitely greater and more permanent than a lengthy treatise in red pencil at the bottom of a blue-book or essay. Perhaps the graduate student who writes there is a better critic than the professor; it does not matter, for the student doesn't know that, and the comment carries little meaning...