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Harvard's athletic teams will return to a full athletic schedule of competition tomorrow after the mid-year examination lull with feature contests listed for the Varsity basketball team against Yale at New Haven and for the Varsity hockey team against Dartmouth at Hanover...
Both contests will vitally effect Harvard's chances of winning hockey and basketball league honors and in neither case will the Crimson be at top playing strength because of the customary effect on team play and conditioning following the mid-year examination period...
Although the Varsity has held informal practice sessions during the mid-year period, the players are not in top condition. Some of them have found it impossible to attend these practices. On the other hand the St. Nicks have been playing regularly since last facing the Crimson...
...Today Professor Bell held the first meeting of Comparative History 88a. He announced there was no mid-year examination, no hour exam, and the thesis was due by November 1st. "Boy," Harold said afterwards, "we've made a find. For the love of Professor Bell don't tell anyone about this course. I may even make Group IV this year; if I did that, the old fellow ought to send me to Bermuda for the reading period." Harold was no more enthusiastic than I: the weekends already seemed longer...
...blood-stained, professorial axe of mid-year examinations slowly descends nearer and nearer to the tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall...