Word: midyear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although all concentrators are still required to try for Honors, Lynn said that the emphasis on grades would decrease with the expanded quota. The old system placed undue emphasis on freshman midyear grades which were not indicative of intellectual potential, he explained...
...auto production will . . . cut considerably into steel output." It cannot go on without a letup, said the bank. "At some point . . . [either] labor troubles, inventory adjustments or model changes ... is likely to be a temporary source of weakness." The National Industrial Conference Board backed up this view: by midyear, "sales and production of 1955 models in the eight months since November 1954 will have come close to exhausting the 1955 model market." Furthermore, said N.I.C.B., it looks as if home building has reached "at least a temporary plateau" at 1,400,000 starts, meaning that the boom...
Students will take midyear examinations immediately after they return from Christmas vacation, instead of having two weeks of classes first...
...Midyear exams have been shifted to a point in early January, the authorities said, because the two weeks of classes which now divide Christmas vacation and midyears are an academically representative period. Since Yale has no needing period, students tend to ignore their classes during these weeks and to wait for the actual exam period before studying in earnest...
...Yale administration's chief problem in establishing the new academic schedule was to reconcile it with athletic schedules that were arranged several years ago. Since Yale's midyear exam period will now come two weeks before those of other colleges, it was necessary to reschedule all contests that would have been played in early January, in addition to those which would conflict with the Elis' new spring vacation