Word: midyear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature of the competition first offered to 1930 men is the fact that it will end in seven weeks, that is, before the start of the Midyear examinations. This is an extraordinary departure from the traditional CRIMSON competitions lasting 11 weeks, and has been inaugurated in order to make the trials less arduous. The seven weeks will not include the Christmas vacation period but will involve seven weeks of actual work...
...which the undefeated Freshman crew used last year, but has a little more canvas on the bow. As soon as it is completed W. F. Lutz, for twenty years builder of Harvard's shells, will start work on a boat which should be completed by the Midyear period. This boat will be built on the same lines as the one in which the Second University eight of 1914 won the English Grand Challenge cup and which the University 150-pound crew has been using for the past two years. The new shell however, will be built with enough depth...
Dean W. L. Sperry of the Theological School will leave Cambridge immediately after the Midyear period to deliver a series of lectures at Oxford University, England. Dean Sperry will first give the Union Lecture in Manchester College, Oxford and throughout the spring the will be the speaker at a series of two Hibbert lectures to be delivered at four centers, in England. These speeches will be at Manchester, at Birmingham and probably at Liverpool and the University of London. Dean Sperry will conclude his work with an Essex Hall lecture to be given at London early in June...
...gave most of the fall season to athletics; he also gave all the spring to it, and he did a certain amount of out-of-season practice as well. In addition, he was a class officer and generally a prominent member of the freshman class last year. At midyear he had a straight 'C' record. I called him in and said, 'Would you mind telling me something? How much work did it cost you to get a record such as you got?' He said...
...freshman fails at the November hour examinations or at the midyear examinations, to have passed in four courses, with satisfactory grades in at least three of them, he will, failing some good excuse, be placed on probation, and if at the next examination period he has failed to attain the minimum requirements he may possibly have his connection with the College severed...