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Another daring approach to exam writing involves the general technique of shifting the burden of proof from yourself to the grader. For example, you are taking a science or math exam and have gotten hopelessly snarled in a morass of partially connected figures and equations. Yet you know that the grader knows perfectly well how to solve the problem, though integration and other forms of higher mathematics have always remained a complete mystery to you. So you circle what you think is the most significant group of figures you have derived and state in the margin that "the rest...
...spectator at the so-called 'riot' in Harvard Square last Thursday evening and haven't yet gotten over the effects of what I saw. . . . I should say that I am a fifty-year-old woman who has been a nurse for 20 years and is used to upsetting situation. As I sum it up, the Cambridge police HATE the Harvard boys with a vicious, brutish hatred. It was so obvious a child could see it, but of course, the boys had to suffer...
Coach Johnny Skillman's club has gotten off to its most mediocre start in many years, but an upset today could still salvage a creditable record. Yale has already lost to Amherst and Davidson, two Harvard victims during its recent eight-match winning streak. Both of today's opponents were soundly trounced by Princeton, the number one team in the East. A victory this afternoon would establish the Crimson as second...
...School's new expansion program has gotten off to a good start by gifts and grants totaling over one million dollars. This sum has come primarily from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Keppel decided early in the planning that the School should try to carry out the new program over at least a six-year period, and that new support should simultaneously be sought to continue the activities after that time. Approximately four million dollars, it was estimated, would be needed to provide for new professorships and more scholarships, while estimates...
Walter P. Paepcke, Chairman of the Container Corporation of America, recently voiced the pressing need: "Corporation managers have, broadly speaking, not gotten much beyond the Community Chest and the Red Cross stage in their thinking...Heads of companies who are not essentially gift-minded hide behind their boards of directors, the board of directors pontifically asserts that 'the money in the treasury belongs to the shareholder...