Word: midyear
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...many courses the midyear marks are not given out until very late, in some courses not at all. The result is that some students remain for a long time in ignorance of the value of their work in the eyes of the instructors. Now, this would all be very well if the purpose of the examinations were simply to accommodate the instructors. This is no doubt their chief use; but students, too, should derive some benefit from them. Examinations are at best necessary evils, impositions on instructors and students alike. It seems just, therefore, that students as well as instructors...
...number of midyear examinations at the University of Pennsylvania has been greatly reduced...
Professor Cooke will give a special lecture in Chemistry A in Boylston at half-past seven o'clock this evening. He will review the work of the course with special reference to the midyear examination...
...students in the German courses at Princeton who have ranked above 85 per cent. in their term work, have been excused from the midyear examination...
...midyear examinations at Technology closed Saturday and the midwinter vacation extends until February 4. It is expected that at the beginning of the next term the new building on Trinity place will be ready for the students. The mechanical and civil courses will occupy it, and the work of moving in is being carried on as rapidly as possible. The mining department will occupy the basement of the Rogers building, which was formerly the mechanical engineering laboratory. In the new mechanical engineering laboratory there will be a new triple expansion Corliss engine and other improvements...