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Sweating it in Jock Harty Arena

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Writing exams in the Jock Harty Arena, with monitors patrolling silently and ceaselessly, was a rite of passage for thousands of Queen’s students over the years. A few weeks after the angst of final exams, the empty bleachers above would be full of proud relatives witnessing those same students’ finest hour: their Convocation.

Do you have a Jock Harty exam memory to share? Email spleiter@business.queensu.ca and we’ll publish your reminiscences in the next issue.
(Photo from the early 1970s, Queen’s University Archives, Wallace Berry photographer.)