This change recently created more controversy on campus after an academic official asked instructors not to schedule midterm exams on Nov. 2, the date of the first such game.

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Albans in Washington, when he would persuade classmates to cram for midterm exams while devouring hamburgers past midnight at the twenty-four-hour Little Tavern on Connecticut Avenue, he had shown a propensity for avoiding some subjects until finally focusing on them with seemingly inexhaustible energy.

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