Word: mid-years
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...vital religion. Half of these lectures, which are designed to help in clearing up problems occurring to the questioning minds of students, will be given on the last six Sunday afternoons before the Christmas vacation, and the other six lectures will be given on successive Sundays after the mid-year examinations. All of these meetings will take place in Phillips Brooks House at 4 o'clock...
...plans three innovations, all consonant with the drift of liberal thought in education. The first is an elaborate freshman week with the intent of truly initiating the new arrival into the ins and outs of the college before he plunges into the maelstrom. The second contemplates the abolishment of mid-year examinations. It is purposed to rest grades during the year on judgments more co-incident with the actual work performed in courses. The third and last reform is identical with that most recently instituted in Harvard and Yale, namely, permission for upper-classmen seeking distinction to reduce the burden...
...last two changes are clearly progressive. It might be feared that to abolish mid-year tests-would leave a void in the system of grading. In this case, however, there is definite intent to substitute the instructor's judgment for the results of the quizz. And, as if to emphasize that the quality of work required is not to be lowered, President Ogilby has announced that students failing in a large proportion of their work will be dropped their first mid-year, on the basis of instructors reports as heretofore on the results of examinations. Comment on the permission granted...
...mid-year records of students in the College announced yesterday, furnish some interesting figures and comparisons, especially in the increased percentage of men achieving Dean's List standing. Following the mid-year examinations, the number of students placed on the Dean's List was 579, or 17.9 per cent of the enrolment, as compared with last year's 500, or 16.6 per cent...
...Dean's List is one entirely of the numbers in the second and third groups, and 12 men who were in probation for unsatisfactory records won Dean's List standing at mid-years. The percentage of unsatisfactory records was about the same this year as last. Of the 30 men required to leave collage as a result of the mid-year examinations, only one was in each of the two upper classes. There were in addition nine Sophomores and 19 Freshmen, showing an increase of six in the former and one in the latter class over last year's record...