Word: half-year
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...demands of the course are fairly heavy. During the first half-year 3000 words are called for bi-weekly; after mid-years, when a fragmentary novel is usually attempted, the requirements are boosted to 4000 words. Most of the criticism is written on the returned themes; the class room periods are devoted to interesting and profitable discussions of contemporary literature. Here too, Mr. De Voto knows his ground and manages to relate the material under discussion with the course work. These informal discussions give the student an opportunity to air his views on almost any subject; views which will...
Even such a catchall as Sociology must bow before the imposing array of weekly subjects in Anthropology 1. The only qualification is that it treat the early beginnings of man. The first half-year is devoted to the study of Physical Anthropology and takes the place of a course in Evolution usually given in other colleges. The second half-year takes up the cultural aspects of man's beginnings...
...Manhattan's bewigged merchants had bestirred themselves in the short half-year since War had officially ceased. On a bright February morning...
...general examinations or tutors. Such an agency might be indispensable in History, Government and Economics, where the courses do not follow so logically upon one another. Also, the student does much semi-independent work in collaboration with laboratory instructors; especially in certain more advanced courses where the second half-year is devoted to some research problem...
...taken the second half-year, in most cases with the consent of the instructor...