Word: midyears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon to cast one's eyes toward next year's experiment, an experiment which has fortunately received comparatively little attention from the popular press but one which, were all its consequences realized, is little less than revolutionary. The respite of classes which will take effect before midyear and final examinations in the college year 1927-1928, accepted by the majority of undergraduates under the vague head of "improvements" will in the not too distant future be brought to their attention as a factor in their not too distant future be brought to their attention as a factor in their education...
...probable abolition of General Examinations for the Bachelor's Degree at midyears, making it impossible for students to graduate from the College except in the June of each year, was indicated by the announcement last night that the Corporation and the Board of Overseers have approved a plan to put the further continuance of these midyear examinations at the discretion of the various departments or committees in charge of the concentration fields. Students registered in the departments or divisions which adopt the new plan with regard to General Examinations will thus be prevented form graduating in three and a half...
...department of History, Government, and Economics is the only one which has yet taken any action on this proposal, having provisionally decided to do away with the midyear General and Divisional examinations after next year. The delay of at least a year in putting the plan into effect is for the benefit of those members of the class of 1928 who intend to take their degrees next February. Although none of the other departments have yet considered the matter of changing the present system of two sets of General Examinations each year, it is probable that most of them will...
Candidates for the degree in 1928, either at midyear or in June may choose as was permitted this year, between the usual final examinations and a General Examination. Beginning in 1929, the General Examination will be required of all candidates...
...those sacred institutions of the drama which clutter up Scoolay Square. Such diversions are amusing but they cannot quite fill every requirement. If the playhouses must be quiescent at some time during the year there would appear, at least to the student, to be no better time than the Midyear period. Then he could devote undivided attention to his books, safe in the knowledge that Tremont Street was but an echoing lane and that dust lay an inch thick on Harpo's harp...