Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's custom of having makeup exams in the fall is of long standing. Any man who fails a subject in the spring must undergo a re-trial when he comes back to college, and until two years ago all those who passed such an exam were immediately reinstated and allowed to represent Yale on the athletic field...
...ruling was made that if a student failed an examination at finals, although he would still have to take a makeup, he would stay on probation until midyears. Special consideration was given, however, to these who had "ability credits," that is, 75 or over, in two or more subjects and those who passed the makeups with "quality credits...
...criticise Yale's action as surreptitiously cheating on the eligibility agreement or to demand that Yale give up fall makeup exams is simply to overlook the facts of the case...
...Makeup exams in the fall are compulsory since Yale has no regular summer school; they are taken by all men who have failed one course the spring before; they have existed, with a modification three years ago making the rules stiffer for a long time, and they are an integral part of the Yale academic schedule. This September 33 men (baside Platt and Scott) were relieved of probation, for getting honors in makeups...
...Three agreement does not dictate the program of finals, midyears, hour or makeup exams in each University any more than it sets the requirements for a passing grade in Freshman English. When Harvard abolished November and March probation for upperclassmen and then reduced midyear pro, it was never felt by those in Cambridge that such action was in any way the concern of Yale or Princeton...