Suffolk University - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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While knowledge and study should be the primary ob- jectives of a college education, the social life of the student also plays a vital part in the formation of his total personality. Through such activities as lectures, art exhibits, dances, parties, plays and variety shows, the student is given ample opportunity to develop his social poise and to form personal relationships. [6 m • f w 1 7

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A constant test of one ' s knowledge To the student they are the moment of truth; the difference between a college career or a trudge to the local employment office. Thus they are one collective ogre — a haunting spectre — which must be faced and strug- gled with. To the professor they mean a lot of hard work combined with the as- sumption of a responsibility to decide whether an individual will remain or depart. To parents, husbands, wives, and sweethearts they mean periods of short tempers, little sleep and much anxiety. What are they? They are exams, a distasteful but necessary measure of what the student has done in a course.