Word: mid-year
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...regular assignment of the Price Greenleaf Aid is made before the student enters college and this subsequent award is made only to first-year students of high standing. The winners will be announced after the mid-year examinations. The bequest is distributed in sums of from $100 to $250 a year...
...dates provisionally fixed for the mid-year examinations are given below: Examinations will begin at 9.15 o'clock, except any that may be announced for 2 o'clock, and must not extend beyond three hours. The following regulations are brought to the notice of all men: "No student is permitted to take any books or paper into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever." 'A student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the time appointed for the examination...
...accordance with the rule by which the general control of Freshman affairs before the mid-year elections is in the hands of the Executive Committee of the Student Council, the following men have been already nominated as members of the House Committee of the several dormitories: Gore--H. C. Flower, Jr., R. C. Clement, C. W. Greenough; Standish--A. Perkins, M. Phinney, E. W. Pervere; Smith--C. D. Murray, W. B. Felton, S. R. Dunham...
Needless to say, one takes great risks with his health in swimming in such a breeding-place of disease. In one case that I know of, abscess of the ear developed, and in another, pinkeye, keeping the victim from making any preparation for mid-year exams, and leaving his eyes in such a condition that for two months he could not use them at all by artificial light...
...them who could pass them if they made the effort. But the proposal to adopt a system of certification is very radical. It might mean a marked lowering of standards, or else the flooding of the College with students who would have to be sent home after their first mid-year examinations. Moreover, the fact that a man has had the initiative and ambition to take and pass these tests raises a presumption that he really wants to go to Harvard and that he has the stamina to orient himself in the vigorous atmosphere of a large man's college...