Word: midyearitis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Applications for mid-year scholarships are due at 4 University Hall on or before January 16. The only men eligible are freshmen in good standing, including provisionally classified students in their first year of residence, as well as men on the Dean's list as a result of midyear grades...
Possibly the visiting members of the Radley School could have chosen no more unusual period of the college year in which to see Harvard than the present one. That strange thing called the Reading Period following on the Christmas holidays and foreboding the midyear examinations has made the even tenor of collegiate ways less even and slightly bewildered. The calm fall days have gone and the lethargy of late winter...
...unheard ode in a minor key that sings their passing acquires the rhythm of a funeral march as one realizes that these are the last brave survivors of a dying race. Next year there will be none. The midyear graduate of the future is an impossibility--for degrees are to be granted only in June. From now on the digits will bear no fractional appendages. The present species is the last of a long line. And his heritage is silence...
...following schedule for the midyear examinations was posted by the Faculty of Arts and Solences yesterday. The examination period begins on January 19, and classes will once more start on February 6. Unless 2 o'clock is specified all examinations will take place at 9.15 o'clock. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 (XIII) Anthropology 2 Peabody Mus. 22 Chemistry B Geol. Lect. Rm. Comp. Literature 6a Sever 5, 6, 11 Economics A Mr. Bigelow, O, Y Memorial Hall Mr. Brown, L, P Memorial Hall Dr. Chamberlin, B Memorial Hall Mr. de Chazeau, G, Q, Z Harvard 5 Mr. Johnson...
That interviews with the firms with whom the Senior contemplates a permanent connection will follow close upon the midyear period, is a significant improvement. The hasty decisions that become necessary as the Yard is decked out in Commencement gayety should diminish, if they do not disappear altogether. A close investigation of the credentials of firms, in the past a work of the Office, may now be placed more generally in the hands of the Senior himself. Guidance of graduates already acquainted with a business should minimize that group of errors which have been ascribable to precipitate choice...