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...Committee on Educational Policy is expected to decide today on its recommendation to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences concerning the Student Council's proposal to lengthen the midterm recess...
...survey last night revealed that 800 persons were using the library at 8:30 p.m. compared with a midterm average of about 450. Lamont Librarian Philip J. McNiff said however that the number was not more than usual for this time of the year...
Under Mexico's constitution, Ruiz Cortines can never be re-elected after his term runs out in 1958. But a dedicated man can get a lot done in three years, and it was very much in character that the President ended his midterm report with a renewed call to action: "Poverty, ignorance and disease still plague many of our countrymen ... It is our obligation to face these problems, even though we know we cannot end this tremendous task...
There has always been a bit of the mystic in midterm and final grades. The student troops off to Memorial Hall and writes for an afternoon. Soon thereafter he receives a postcard; the only evaluation of his efforts is in a cryptic, insufficient mark. Though there were frequent requests by students who wanted to see the error of their ways, professors had a good excuse for not returning blue books. University regulations, they said, forbade handing the tests back to the students. Instead, the professor had to store the books for a full year. The ruling, perhaps, was a little...
There is still a possibility, however, of extended library hours during the midterm exam period. "If funds are available," Fogg Librarian Miss Louise Lucas said, "we hope we can make some adjustment and keep the library open until...