Word: mid-years
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...freshmen may still take the naive attitude of "Here I am. Educate me if you can." But before many months' residence they come to question that attitude. False opinions of education as a "pouring-in process" are likely to be rudely shaken by the November examinations. And by the Mid-Year period they must have begun to see that education--at least the Harvard brand of it--tries to stimulate active, critical research for truth. To fail to see it is to run serious danger of terminating one's academic career...
...faculty ruling, as was the whole Student council. Dunker said that last year's Student Council had brought forward the fast that the inequality of the probation periods made probation an unjust bounden to men who failed at the November hours, since it is 13 weeks to the mid-year examinations, while men who go a probation at the mid-year examinations may regain their good standing after a six-week period at the April hour examinations. This system places too much emphasis on the November her examinations, which are really no criterion by which to judge...
...comes from the University Glee Club office at the Music Building that the trials in Sever 11 at 7 o'clock tonight will constitute the last chance for new members to enter the Glee Club this College year. There will not be, as heretofore, another set of trials after mid-year. Members of all departments of the University, both graduate and undergraduate, are eligible...
...obviously unauthorized and premature. Such details as have appeared, furthermore, are obviously inaccurate. One newspaper account derives a fanciful picture of the new institution from the presumed antipathy of its founder to semester examinations. The "precise issue" upon which Dr. Meiklejohn resigned from Amherst, it says, was the mid-year examination and the separation of "junior and senior colleges." This is a new theory of the liberal college. Neither the triviality nor the palpable irresponsibility of such descriptions of the new college have deterred editorial comment, however. The New York Times has solemnly frowned upon the mid-yearless innovation...
Similarly, 15 Sophomores, 3 Juniors, and 2 Seniors were required to leave college this year after mid-year's, as compared with 13 Sophomores, 6 Juniors, and 3 Seniors who left last year...