Word: half-year
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...Just a word in regard to sending boys away from Harvard. Take the really good boy who simply does not know what a day's work consists of. After keeping him on for half-year with an unsatisfactory record, we often say to him and his family that he ought to be taken out and given a good, stiff job. That happens generally at midyears. Sometimes it does not happen until the end of the freshman year. If it happens at midyears, the man can start in again in the autumn if he has made a good record for himself...
...elastic to give every encouragement to those students who decide to try for distinction late in their college careers. It proposes, moreover, that all Seniors who obtain a grade of B or better at the Mid-year examinations be excused from the requirements in that course for the second half-year. In such cases, it is suggested that the tutor be given complete discretion to require such a Senior to attend classes or nor depending upon his own greatest need...
There will not be room for a larger class than is at present enrolled next fall, but by February at least fifty more students will be able to be accomodated. Men will be allowed to enter the school at the beginning of the second half-year...
...above the Renaissance Hall into a lecture room seating 150 persons and of connecting it with stairways leading to the lower parts of the building has now been completed. The lecture room is suitable for public lectures and has been used for classes since the beginning of the second half-year...
Tomorrow is the last day in the second half-year upon which undergraduates in the University may drop or add, without liability for a fee of $5, any course of study beginning in the second half-year...