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Once he is admitted, the student is in for a shock, whether he is attending Harvard or Yale. He will be subjected to new pressures and will probably have to learn a way of thinking quite different from the method he used to get through college...
...Harvard faculty has another shock in store for the new student: the final examination in June. While mid-year trial exams do help Harvard men a bit in preparing for the June experience, the full pressure is absent, and there is far less material to be reviewed. Many men do not prepare for the trial-run exams since the grade docs not count...
...week's end, Ulrich was still in bed, being treated for shock. Said Headmaster William Bowdon: "I've pointed out to the other boys that when stripped of its glamor Ulrich's action was to take what didn't belong to him and endanger the lives of other people. But the boys still regard him as a hero...
Apocalyptic Visions. William Cowper was only six when his mother, a descendant of the great John Donne, died of a fever. Timid little William never got over the shock of her death. Next year he took another severe shock when he was thrown to the young lions of an English boarding school. In sporting tradition, stronger boys mauled the weakling thoroughly, and with special zest because of an "intimate deformity" he is said to have had. William apparently made his "adjustment" by repressing his fear and shame and hatred. At any rate, when he was 21, and a law student...
...mainland, Vera takes to relentless nagging. She insults his friends, drives the hired boy off the island, even neglects and abuses her own daughter, the one thing truly dear to her. In the end, the daughter dies, partly because of her mother's carelessness in a crisis. Shock and a miscarriage kill Vera too-but not before her bubble has burst, and she sees herself as she is and life as it must be lived...