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Three CRIMSON competitions, two for the class of 1918 and one for 1917, will be held during the first half-year. Members of the class of 1918 who wish to compete for the positions of second assistant business manager will report at the CRIMSON Office, corner of Massachusetts avenue and Plympton street, Monday morning at 8.30 o'clock. At this time the duties of the competition will be outlined and work will commence immediately. Any who wish to get detailed information in advance may apply to the business manager in the CRIMSON Office at any time...
...Students who at the middle of their Sophomore year have not passed the oral examination in French or German be required to take in the second half-year a tutorial course in that language provided by the department concerned. This course shall not count for a degree...
Indeed the orals are no longer oral. If a man wishes he may take a written examination at the beginning of his Junior year, or at any of the stated examination periods thereafter. As he will be prepared for this test by a half-year of tutoring, few men should stagger into Senior year under the onus of probation...
These considerations have led the Faculty to introduce the change in the first-year department to go into effect next fall. This change will consist principally in the introduction of a course on general liabilities during the first half-year which will furnish the necessary groundwork for the other divisions and in bringing the students under as many different professors as possible
Apropos of the subject of study, certain statistics in regard to Freshman probation this year are especially interesting. Out of the forty-four probationers which represent the Freshman crop for the first half-year, it was found that twenty-five had taken less than three cuts, and that eight had taken less than three cuts, and that eight had taken no cuts at all. Evidently, as Dean Yeomans expressed it, they had shown interest in their work at least to the extent of taking their bodies to the class-room...