HIDE AND SEEK

The winds playing with the leaves of the Delphic oracle could have wrought no more havoc than students attempting to discover preceding examination papers from the morass at Widener. One presumes that in their pristine state the files were blessed with a certain system and order; after a day of handling, however, they are reduced to woeful complexity. Only those courses ending at the midyear are guaranteed the safe haven of being bound in book form. The others, the whole courses, are destined to lurk unseen or at any rate unfond in a maze of un-alphabetized sheets.

It the curse of systematization is to embrace the modern world it could well start with devising a means whereby these former exams might be found in less than an hour's search and under circumstances less akin to a subway rush. As matters stand the end is not worth the energy expended and the lessons of the past remain securely hidden by their supreme disorder from the students of the present. Experience may be a great teacher but her wisdom fails when her schoolbooks remain veiled from seeking eyes.