Klipp and Fr. Lanphier

In my freshman year (1963) Fr. J. David Lanphier taught fresman English and junior Civics. It was his custom often to read homework assignments and return them without a grade. One day he was walking by the study hall and he told junior Glenn Klipp that he would be a little late for the civics class. He handed Glenn a pile of homework papers and told him to pass them out at the start of class. Of course, there were no grades on the papers, so Glenn put a 65 on each paper, except for the 98 which he put on his own. When Fr. Lanphier arrived at class there were a lot of questions about the grades. He soon straightend out the misunderstanding and everyone laughed at Glenn’s joke. At the end of class Fr. Lanphier announced that they would have a test on chapter 6 the next day. On the next day everyone got a test paper which instructed them to just start writing something on the paper like they knew what they were doing. Everyone got that paper except Glenn Klipp. On his “test” paper there were questions that had nothing to do with chapter 6. When he looked around the room he saw all his classmates writing busily, so he figured that somehow he had studied the wrong material and would just be unable to pass the test. In the end Glenn was let in on the joke and Fr. Lanphier had the final laugh.