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...Harvard also, examinations do not come until the end of the year, while Yale has mid-year finals which provide a more regular check for the student, and which lessen the amount of review work he must do in preparation. Grades are more important at Harvard than at Yale too. Only a relatively small percentage of the class is eligible for the Law Review, the Board of Student Advisers, and the Legal Aid Bureau-the most important extra-curricular activities...
...help orient and instruct first-year students. Harvard has instituted the successful Teaching Fellow Program. Under this plan, about 18 men meet with a teaching fellow once a week to study problems presented in courses, and to take "dry-run" mid-year exams...
...Harvard faculty has another shock in store for the new student: the final examination in June. While mid-year trial exams do help Harvard men a bit in preparing for the June experience, the full pressure is absent, and there is far less material to be reviewed. Many men do not prepare for the trial-run exams since the grade docs not count...
...committee prescribes remedial work for students who chronically use faulty English in their mid-year and final examinations. Morrison said he was doubtful whether a standing faculty committee was necessary to perform this operation which might be accomplished more efficiently by some other means...
Morrison recalled that during the '30's the committee made a study of all the essays written for a History 1 mid-year exam. The best essay was selected along with the worst, and both were published for comparison in a pamphlet...