Word: mid-years
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...gaunt, barnlike Washington auditorium five blocks away from the White House, where George Washington University was holding its mid-year commencement, went President and Mrs. Coolidge. In the stage wings they slipped on the caps and gowns of scholars and went out upon the platform. There, while college students cheered and Cabinet members, diplomats, professors, patted their hands in approval, Calvin Coolidge adjusted his spectacles to read his last Presidential address...
...type of examination which finds extreme expression in the English 32 mid-year paper is fortunately by no means universal at Harvard. But it is common enough to merit thoughtful attention. Its outstanding characteristics are length and purely factual emphasis. Both tend to minimize the importance of thought and selection on the part of the writer. Assuredly an examiner should demand facts in the answers to his questions; but this does not mean that facts must come tumbling out of the writer like nickels from an opened slot machine. The examiner should rather seek to test not only knowledge...
Followers of the Crime column may be proue to see in the recent taking of a mid-year examination purely for the fun of the thing the machinations of some infernal machine or robot. Certainly there is ground for the suspicion that no average undergraduate has been responsible for the development in the ways of vagabonds announced in another column of this issue of the CRIMSON. But the fallacy latent in the assumption that a mere mechanism produced this battling departure from tradition finds ready exposure in a little reflection...
...second and most important half of the University hockey season will get under way next Wednesday, when the first practice since the beginning of the examination period will call Harvard hockey players from their mid-year hibernation...
Playing the last game before the mid-year examinations period, the University hockey team will face a strong but little tried Boston Athletic Association six at 8.30 o'clock tonight in the new Boston Garden...