Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greek was prescribed to Freshmen and tutors had to be found. The academic year for the upper classes began on Thursday; for Freshmen, some of whom were examined for admission in the last three days of the week, it began on the following Monday. On Saturday half of the Freshmen had not been provided with a tutor in Greek. At my midday meal on Saturday, my brother, then a tutor in mathematics, brought me an oral order from the President to begin work on Monday. Obviously the President had nourished till the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour...
...entertainment offered at the University Theatre for the last half of this week shows a decided relapse from the high standard set during the previous four days...
...Saturday class during autumn is a dismal, sparsely attended affair at best. The Saturday one o'clock that concern undergraduates, to whom theoretically the first interest in the football team belongs, are very few. The half-hour surplus allowed at the start of the afternoon would hardly lead an earnest football follower to the classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might...
...School of Landscape Architecture has lengthened its curriculum to three years, instead of the course covering two and a half years plus a thesis as has been the case in previous years, it was announced yesterday by R. W. Pond, Dean of the School. The change will affect all men entering this year...
...School this year reached its highest mark in the last three years, having a total of 62 men entered. In 1927-1928, there were 57, while last year there were but 41 men registered. There were 37 new men in this year's incoming class, of whom over half had had previous undergraduate training in their college courses. This is an unusual increase over the average entering group of from...