Word: mid-years
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...solution, is to make the Reading Period longer in duration as well as more universal in practice. Either by starting the Period before the Christmas holidays, or by pushing the mid-year examination period further, into February, abolishing the inexcusable institution of April hours, or by having but one reading period a year, it should be possible to allow the student time to correlate his knowledge of a course or to plunge deeper into some aspect of the subject. Perhaps, as the College is now organized, the difficulties in the way of extending the Reading Period are insurmountable. In that...
Whiteside will be shown over the Harvard naval base, probably this afternoon, by various coaches and undergraduate oarsmen. There will be no formal meeting of crew men, however, inasmuch as the sport will not be formally organized until after the mid-year examination period...
...will last approximately eight weeks, but during the mid-year examination period there will be no work so that this cloud will not hang over the candidates...
...election of the editor and sub-chairmen of the Freshman year book will be conducted this year as it was last term, when a new system of selecting these officials was inaugurated. Prior to 1928 the editor was appointed by the class president after the mid-year elections, but it was found that this plan prevented the board from doing its best work on the volume. As a result the present plan was inaugurated, which permits the selection of the board before the Christmas holidays...
...class of 1932 will have the opportunity to compete for the News, Photographic, and Business departments in the most interesting competition of the year. The only remaining chance for men in this class to make these boards is a competition which takes them through the Mid-Year Examination period...