Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further investigation into the action of the Yale Faculty Committee in removing Platt and Scott, prominent football players, from probation, revealed last night that a total of 150 men took the fall makeup examinations this year and that until two years ago any man who so much as passed a makeup examine September was immediately taken off probation...
...response to queries by the "Yale News" the Dean's office released a list of 33 men, whom the Executive Committee of the Faculty have voted to remove as a result of makeup exams taken last week...
...situation as explained by those at New Haven is as follows: compulsory makeup exams are taken by all those who failed to pass in one subject at finals. If more than one course is failed, the student has his connections severed...
...current petitions desire a return to the former rules. Here it might be added, "whatever they were." This is no solution since the old plan presented many difficulties which the Masters were right in attacking. They lacked uniformity not only in makeup but also in enforcement. Observance ran the gamut from the monastic confinement of Leverett to the country club tolerance of Eliot. While the word "chaperon" stood on the statute books, when the "Aunt from Dubuque" appeared at Harvard parties, it was more through spite than invitation. Still the law stood, and many students felt guilt at the habitual...
...Class of 1939 in as much as no Freshmen are allowed to try out for this board. It will last eight weeks, or less if the candidate is able to turn in enough good material before the full number of weeks are up, and will include training in the makeup of the editorial page, writing editorials, and investigation and research into controversial subjects for material...