Word: mid-year
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...Military Science 2 lecture last evening, Major Flynn announced that from the beginning of the mid-year period until the close of the April recess, all lectures for the advanced course will be discontinued, and in their stead three parallel courses will be given. Every cadet in Military Science 2 will be compelled to take one of these three, but he may choose whichever one he wants. The three subjects offered are Military Engineering, Topography and Administration...
Every class in the community will be affected by this drastic measure. Not even the Back Bay bud will escape the pinch, for one clause reads that all dances, public and private, shall stop at 10 o'clock. Gone also will be the midnight oil consumption of the mid-year period; even the movie palaces will have to leave the hero hanging over a canyon edge on a thin rope, if he is so inconsiderate as to be in that position, at the tenth stroke of the clock...
...annual mid-year report of the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House shows that since the opening of College in September, 232 members of the University have been enlisted in some form of social work. This number, in spite of the decrease in enrolment in the College, compares favorably with the 279 men enrolled in the cause last year. A large number of the 232 men are employed in teaching foreigners and workingmen, and in leading boys' clubs in Cambridge. Others are working under the settlement houses in Boston. The scope of the work done by these volunteers...
...There will be no meetings of either Military Science 1 or 2 on or after Wednesday, January 23, 1918, until after the close of the period of mid-year examinations. Previous to that time a new schedule will be announced...
...Boathouse closed until spring, a half-ton of fuel can be saved each day, and for this reason the transfer to the Locker Building was arranged. Although the tank will not be in use, there will be adequate accommodation for all candidates who report, at least until after the mid-year period...