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...Yale, high stand men are gradually being given these privileges in the form of release from routine classroom work where the individual can profit from it. Harvard has just announced its policy of cutting down the amount of classroom teaching from the Christmas recess to the Mid-year examinations and of omitting it entirely in many courses for nearly the last month before the final exams. This advanced step at Harvard will be tried out at first only by those departments and divisions whose instructors are favorable to the idea. And it will not be applied to the Freshman Class...
Another interesting innovation is about to be tested in the field of education. Harvard university, if is believed, is considering a plan whereby classes and lectures will be suspended for a period of several weeks before mid-year and final examinations. Such a move is designed primarily to give students additional time for personal investigation as well as more chance to prepare for finals...
...another year the announcement of the mid-year records of students reveals an increase in the percentage of men achieving Dean's List standing. There are 599 men on the list this year, or 18.3 percent of the total undergraduate registration, as compared with 579 last year or 17.9 percent of the enrollment...
These figures show an increase over last year's mid-year results of 8 in Group 1, and 16 in Group 3, although there has been a drop of four in Group...
Princeton, N. J., March 9, 1927,--The recently-instituted Harvard plan of giving students respites from class work before mid-year and final examinations has attracted the interest of Professor Eisenhart. Faculty Dean of Princeton University...