IN THE THICK OF DISASTER Examination week---torture of the "wooden" and seventh heaven of the "savvy!" For the wooden man, he who knows little, this week of final examinations is a period of unalloyed torture.

He must go before an array of professors who are there to expose his ignorance.
No "wooden" man can expect to get by.

The gates of hope are closed before his face.

He marches to the ordeal, full of a dull misery.
Whether he is fourth classman or first, he knows that hope has fled; that he will go below the saving 2.5 mark and be dropped from the rolls.
But your "savvy" midshipman---he who knows much, and who is sure and confident with his knowledge, finds this week of final examinations a period of bliss and pride.

He is going to "pass"; he knows that, and nothing else matters.
Eight o'clock every morning, during this week, finds the midshipman in one recitation room or another, undergoing his final.