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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. People 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 solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student tries to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the Vague Generality is the key device...
...10th-grader at a Roman Catholic boys school in New Jersey, Louis Freeh was "very quiet, very serious and very intelligent," recalls his English teacher, Clyde Borg. "Louis did everything he was supposed to do," says Borg. "I don't think he ever got into trouble." Maybe that was part of his plan. By the 10th grade, Freeh had already known for six years that he wanted to work...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption post the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...