Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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HE BURNS THE MIDNIGHT OIL . . . According to Webster, an examination is a test of knowl- edge or fitness. Final exams, then, are well-named, for they are the last tests of the semester and determine how much knowledge the students have absorbed.

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8 7 DRIFT Christmas Vacation . . . Sleepy Joe Sleeps Because Butlerites are all such good li ' l students, Santa Claus Ross gives them a nice long vacation each year at Christmas time. Sleepy Joe rushes home to wish all a merry Christmas, eat a turkey dinner and sleep for two full weeks. Everyone enters into the spirit and writes letters to the jolly ol ' man with whiskers. The most popular request: Please deliver the post-vacation finals to some deserving persons in Siberia. Jordan Hall takes on a festive appearance when the Y. W. C. A. cabinet members hang wreaths on the office doors and clubs and organizations start celebrat- ing Christmas weeks in advance with parties. On the Wednesday before vacation carolers are active along sorority and fraternity row and at the homes of faculty members. With practically all groups carol- ing it is difficult to find anyone at home to listen. When the all-school Christmas convocation ends the run of social activities. Sleepy Joe hurriedly packs the dirty clothes accumulated during the semester, care- fully forgets books and notes, and goes home for the holidays. After New Year ' s Sleepy Joe returns to school to rest up from his vacation.

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Examination Book Nam. -)©-£tJL l y During Exams Through the years Butler has developed its own version of the popular quiz pro- gram. Zero hour is final exam week, a special week set aside at the end of each semester when students are bombarded with questions on everything from anthropo- logical ancestry to Zeuctocoelomata (that covers about everything from A to Z). The besieged Sleepy Joe awakes one day from his normal half-sleeping state to dis- cover that finals are upon him and he still has three term papers and a book report to complete. At this point sleep ceases for Sleepy Joe and cramming begins. He immediately dusts olif his books, re- trieves his glasses from the latest novel, disconnects the telephone and digs in. He begins to wade through class notes, but they are so decorated with phone num- bers, Greek letters and original art work he becomes distracted. As the clock strikes midnight he is shocked back into reality. To find out which final is first, he begins reading the Collegian. Before coming to the schedule he reads two news-stories, a column and the sports page. His book cracks with newness as he finally opens it to begin reading the 1,229 1 3 pages. Sleepy Joe became acquainted with a crib when he was very young, and as a college student he has a desire to revert to his childhood. With great ingenuity he compounds a crib of the entire book, but it ' s all in fun and he uses it only for review. (It says here in fine print.) Blue books are very popular with pro- fessors and very unpopular with students during exam week. In these books go all that the student knows (or doesn ' t know) and out of these same books comes the grade verdict for the semester. When his last final is over Sleepy Joe is bedraggled, bewildered and befuddled.