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...term papers. Unfortunately, the faculty has been wising up recently and such veteran maneuvers as the missing blue book no longer work. In its place we recommend the following five new fresh approaches to the problem of feigning knowledge: 1) The use of the colon; 2) the graduating senior ploy; 3) The Chinese ploy; 4) The Radcliffe ploy; 5) The room-mate export or phony reference ploy...
Second: the graduating Senior ploy. It is a well known fact that anyone who writes "graduating senior" on his finals usually gets at least one grade higher, or the difference between a C and a B. Some will undoubtedly say that this procedure is highly immoral. On the other hand, since everyone knows examinations are supposed to be graded in an entirely impartial manner, the phrase "gradating senior" should have no more effect that writing "hottentot" or "noblesse oblige." A fimsy defense, indeed but a defense...
Third, the Chinese ploy or the system of sympathy through distance. The crafty student indeed will start his examination question with a couble of sentences which though in English are in an obviously foreign word order. It is wise to use a language which vaguely corresponds with the surname of the writer. At the sight of this peculiarly phrased sentence, the following train of thought inevitably goes through the grader's mind: "Gee this guy is obviously a foreigner; must have come all the way from Bulgaria just to go to Harvard. Anybody who would travel that...
Fourth, we have the Radcliffe ploy. Many people consider that Radcliffe girls are long on facts and short on thinking. Consequently, Radcliffe exams are alleged to contain great globs of partially organized facts, and the ultimate result is that the weight of the facts, whether they are understood or not, gets a passing grade. To take advantage of this, the man who knows little or nothing and therefore has lots of spare time during the exam, embroiders his margins with a host of irrelegant facts. There then exists the outside chance that the grader will mark it like a Radcliffe...
...farmer who clings to his own land is denied such benefits as improved seeds, fertilizers, and easy credits. He cannot em ploy labor outside his family. If his resistance is especially fierce, he is classified as a "negative individual" and a kulak. He is driven to the wall by such devices as government production quotas deliberately made so high that he cannot fill them. Often he must give up his private holding because he has failed to meet a quota, or he may be sentenced to one, two or three years' imprisonment. The commissars boast: "We make great prog...