Word: mid-year
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...hour examinations. In most courses, under the present system, practically all the emphasis is placed upon a student's showing in the mid-year and final examinations. To such an extent is this true that the marks in these make from one-half to three-fourths of the mark of the year. There are many evils resulting from this system. It places a premium on irregular and desultory work, for students know that their good marks in the mid-year and final examinations will more than off-set poor marks in conferences and the few hour tests that...
...place of this system the Student Council recommends one which will do away with the evident faults outlined above. Instead of making the mid-year and final examinations count from fifty to eighty per cent. of a student's work in a course, the Council recommends that a system of regular hour examinations at frequent intervals be substituted, the mid-year and final examinations being counted much less than at present in making up the grades in a course. Under such a system regular study would take the place of irregular and uncertain endeavor; more regularity in work would lessen...
...year ago last January, a most inopportune time, on account of the mid-year examinations, an attempt was made to form a University Chorus, similar to those of the German universities. There was no definite program laid out and, as might be expected, so few men attended rehearsals that after a short time the scheme was abandoned. Nevertheless, the CRIMSON believes that if a serious effort were made by the undergraduates and members of the department of Music interested in singing, a University Chorus would not be an impossibility...
...University baseball team will play the first game of its season with the Red Sox Tuesday, having had in all slightly over a week's outdoor work. Previous to this the battery men had been working in the cage since the mid-year period; fielding candidates except "H" men since the first of March, and the "H" men since March...
...Office, however, has offered a possible remedy for this unsatisfactory arrangement. Those students who were called away to Lawrence for militia duty in the mid-year period were absent from their examinations. In order not to overburden these men with an unbearable amount f work in June, the Office has decided to allow them to take their make-up papers in the latter part of April. This, we believe, is a system of make-ups that might well be permanently adopted...