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The coming of the red and black examination schedule and the impending arrival of blue examination books mark the time for viewing-with-alarm of the black hearts of some examiners and graders.
Examiners are evil when they do not return students' exams to them. This, fortunately, can be remedied simply: the Faculty should vote that all those who give examinations must return blue books to any students who want them, by mail for May exams, if necessary. The only professors disturbed by this change will be those amateur witch-doctors who burn the blue books from their courses as a symbolic destruction of their students.
Graders are evil when they fail to give more than a grade. If examinations are to be a useful educational device, they require analysis and comment. Unhappily, the faculty cannot legislate into existence adequate comment by graders. They can, however, adopt the CRIMSON'S attitude toward present evil practices, and view with alarm.
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