Word: blue-books
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There has been, lately, a most laudable sentiment of dissatisfaction with the present system of rating a student's ability wholly on his power to write a good blue-book...
...will try it there, usually with disastrous conseqnences to themselves. The more interested they are in the subject, the more likely they are to go off on a tangent, and put too much time on the phase that has especially drawn their attention. The result is a very lopsided blue-book...
...then turned to see only a kindly monitor whiling away part of the three hours by reading over his shoulder. One after another has listened to the padding of feet up and down the aisles, and started as a snort from the desk indicates that the fun of communal blue-book reading has begun, and shrunk when the cold glint in a proctor's eye shows he is wondering why you look at your watch so often. What is honor? A mere abstraction; but monitors are a perennial joy, and they must remain...
...next day and the next the same thing happened. Not until the bluebooks were falling thick and fast on the table could the proctor find anything wrong, and then--just one terrifying stare from the unknown eyes, and the discovery that there was a blue-book too many. the mysterious being could change its shape at will for never did he appear twice in the same form. Once a section man thought he recognized the features of a freshman who had been run over by a trolley car; another swore he saw a man who had been expelled last June...
...exposed page of a blue-book he read "The significant thing in the work of Blogdenthorp is that he represents his period both in style and material." At once he recognized the English 99 1-2 formula, and knew that his intuition had been right. Beckoning his comrades to him, he seized upon the writer of the betraying words. Great was the surprise when he found it was not a human being but a mechanical man, a perfected robot. The head came off in his hands. Examining it closely, he found it contained a replaceable cylinder on which was written...