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

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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.

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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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AND SO THE YEAR GOES General supervision of student life is undertaken by separate offices for men and women. The Men ' s Council is headed by Prof. L. Gray Burdin, chairman, and the affairs of women students are treated through the Dean of Women, Dr. Elizabeth B. Ward. Membership in the Alumni Association is held by all graduates of the university and by former students who did not graduate; by members of the faculties; and by persons who have received honorary degrees from the university. Mr. George A. Schumacher is the alumni secretary-treasurer. The Health Service gives medical examination and treatment correlated with physical education and train- ing for participation in sports. In addition to the physi- cians in charge, a registered nurse is on duty every day.