Word: midyear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuation of compulsory physical exercises for student waiters embodies one important concession, which answers effectively the old argument that student waiters have not sufficient time to meet the Freshman physical requirements. In the future the exercise rules for all Freshmen will be abolished during the week before November hours, midyear and final examinations. This will allow three weeks before examinations and six weeks during the Exam periods, in which Freshmen may rejoice in stolid inactivity, with only a book in their hands to make the red corpuscles multiply or to get fresh air in the lungs. Looked at from this...
...really startling to notice how engrossed one becomes in the ways of the tenuous plot. For example, when Shirley is taking the examination that is to decide whether she may stay with her sea-bitten pals or must go to an institution, one comes remarkably close to the familiar midyear-finals feeling. And when the tension is broken, and Guy and Slim come crashing through the window where they had been watching, one chuckles with re- lief even though he recognizes this as an old, old trick...
Since several of the outstanding performers on last year's Freshman squad are at present on probation, the Varsity places can not be definitely determined will after the midyear examination...
...this proposal is carried through the nominations for the elections would be made during the first week after the midyear examination period, and the voting would take place on the following Tuesday and Wednesday...
...Haskins Prize is one of two awarded annually to members of History 1, the other being the LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize, awarded last year to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '88, of Boston. The Briggs Prize, likewise a book, is awarded to the student with the best midyear examination essay...