A lot of the worrying done at examination time is not about the subject matter of the courses but about the Best Way of reaching peak mental efficiency at nine-fifteen on hot morning.
A unique effort in this direction, both in concept and in result, was that a student who in the small hours of the morning before the exam, fortfied himself with rounds of whiskey and soda.
The result was that he entered the hall the gayest person there; and his confidence grew as he easily saw through the questions and remembered the answers and thought of sharp original comments. He wrote at great length and high speed, and finished a sure B. But the mark on the returned postcard was a large E. He protested to the section man, and demanded to see his book and its mistakes. "Your knowledge of the subject may have been perfect," said the instructor, "but what you wrote was three blue-books of rows of wavey lines."
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