Word: mid-year
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...interclass debating season, the Council is making plans for the Triangular debates next April. Delegates from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will meet at New Haven this vacation to decide upon the subject. This will be announced and trials for the teams will be held immediately after the mid-year period...
Practice for both Freshman and University squads will begin in the Cage toward the latter part of February or the first of March. It is probable that both squads will be called out at approximately the same time. Battery practice will begin shortly after the mid-year period. All of the work will be done in the Cage until the weather becomes warm enough to make snappy playing possible out of doors...
...Harvard is the only college to observe Columbus Day. Four colleges, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, and Pennsylvania observe Washington's Birthday as a holiday. Memorial Day is observed by Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Brown. Of all the colleges Dartmouth and Brown are the only ones granting a mid-year recess toward the end of January. For the second time in her history, Princeton declared a holiday on the day of the Yale-Princeton football game...
...those new to the ways of the University and as yet unadapted to university life, not to abate their zeal in doing their prescribed college work, now that they have safely passed the first test. The amount of work put off from day to day accumulates surprisingly fast. The mid-year examinations which now seem so far away are in fact near at hand and safety lies alone in faithful daily performance of the prescribed tasks...
...entering in the spring shall stand for election at the November meeting of the Board; but any candidate having done satisfactory work may be elected at any regular board meeting. Two cuts will be made in the fall competition,--one before the December recess and one immediately following the mid-year recess; two cuts will be made in the spring competition,--one before the spring recess and one at the close of the term. A literary and art candidates' meeting is held every Monday evening at 7 o'clock. These candidates are also required to sign up in the sanctum...