Word: mid-year
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early last March the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard College approved one of the most radical educational experiments projected in any of the larger American colleges in recent years. The plan, which received official sanction, at that time, called for a cessation of classes during two periods of the academic year--the two and a half weeks between the Christmas vacation and the mid-year examination period and the three and a half weeks preceding final examinations. These periods were to be known as reading periods, and their adoption was to be optional with the various departments of the University...
...Independent reading in the future is to receive greater encouragement, but the very fact that it is independent wil make it more imperative that it be very carefully examined at the end of the reading period. A professor in charge of a course should, therefore, provide that in his mid-year and final examinataions a considerable part be devoted to the work which was to be done in the period of unsupervised instruction...
Since the number of students wishing to complete their requirements for the Bachelor's Degree at the Mid-year period has declined to a mere score, there is sufficient cause besides that of a striving for improvement for the elimination of the February General Examinations. Undoubtedly the various Departments have felt the ravages incurred by the comparative excellencies of the two sets of ingulsitions, for previously the questions asked in the winter papers have been accepted as more or less of an indication of those which would not be asked in the following spring or at least which would...
...noted that this step of the Corporation and Overseers does not necessitate a four year course for the attainment of one's degree. It only excludes the possibility of future mid-year graduations. And while there is no reason why February is not as fitting a time as June at which to conclude one's college career the very fact that so few choose to do so is a very good motive for entirely eliminating the opportunity; when betterment in the quality of Generals is an added incentive, the action is praiseworthy. Anything making for a further chance in which...
Initiation of five members of the class of 1928 into Tau Beta Pl, the honorary Engineering School Society, was announced last night by W. M. Hickey '27, president. Elections took place last month after the mid-year grades were made known...