HLS Flashback from 1900: Student goes insane during Con Law Final, Dies from “Overstudy”
Good luck with finals everyone. From the NY Times, June 8, 1900.
H/T Fun Things, and Brian A. on Facebook.
Update: The same story from the Chicago Daily Tribune on June 8, 1900. This articles notes that while taking the exam, he “put his hands to his head and began to shout ‘Constitutional Law!’” I wish I knew the fact pattern caused this student’s untimely demise.
H/T to Michael M. for finding this article.
Update: Here is a link to Mr. Parker’s obituary in the Harvard Crimson.
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about 4 months ago
Let me guess…. Virgin!!!
about 4 months ago
That’s the best thing I’ve heard all day. To bad he didn’t make it to the bar, his head would have exploded all over everyone.
about 4 months ago
This happened to a fellow student in my OChem class. Brain aneurysm. Kid got As in a class where the average was around 60%.
about 4 months ago
“Carl Lipbaum died last week in summer
school from a severe anxiety attack……That means the caddy scholarship is available again.” Caddyshack
about 4 months ago
#4 – you are a genius….
about 4 months ago
#4
I hear he choked on his own vomit…
about 4 months ago
“So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one – big hitter, the Lama – long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”
about 4 months ago
You are to be congratulated that your students survived this semester’s Con law exam without anything approaching Mr. Parker’s ill fated experience.
about 4 months ago
go out like a rock star.
about 4 months ago
Mr. Parker’s motto: “Hard work never killed anyone”