Word: mid-years
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Continuing its policy of aiding students before examinations, the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau has again set up a similar system of tutoring students for the mid-year examinations. In connection with the work of the Reading Period the organization decided to begin work with the opening of the University after the Christmas recess. The tutors have announced that in addition to assisting students for the mid-year examinations they will be willing to guide them in their work during the Reading Period...
...ultimate results of the Reading Period will be determined by each individual--each man constituting in his own case the best judge. A concrete test will come in the shape of the mid-year and final examinations. But even now, after five days' trial of the plan, one thing has been proved: the halls of learning have not been deserted in wholesale fashion. Whatever else has happened, reading is being done Whether that reading is accomplishing any permanent results is a question for the future. But anyone who doubts the ability of the undergraduate to rise voluntarily before...
Following the mid-year examination period two teams will be organized to play each other and later to meet the teams of nearby swimming clubs. Muir at present coaches swimming and water polo at Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Huntington School...
...life blanks which have been mailed are to be filled out and returned before the mid-year examinations, in order to insure their inclusion in the Album. They may be left either in Mower 10 or at Notman's when the photograph is taken. Those men who are engaged or expect to engage in winter or spring activities should not hesitate to fill out their life blanks immediately, as their future activities will be added by the committee...
Soon there will pass from Harvard in the throes of its mid-year period, going as silently as they came, those vague and shadowy Dickensian figures who receive their degrees a half a year before or a half year later than their fellows. Celebrated by no flourish of a sheriff's stick or the beating hoofs of the Governor's guard, still this bestowal of diplomas means much to the ideal who are willing to date obscurity to attain it: it is only just to grace their departure with a single token of remembrance. Akin as they...