Word: midyears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choose the team for the coming debate immediately, the Debating Council will select the men for the coming forensic duel today at the scheduled meeting, instead of holding the customary try-outs. The debaters will be chosen from among the more experienced members of the Debating Council. The midyear examinations prevented the Council from holding the regular try-outs. The Council regrets the necessity for eliminating the try-outs in selecting men to debate against the University of Pittsburgh team, but this was unavoidable because of the impossibility of holding them during the examination period...
Owing to its extraordinary length, the midyear period at Harvard stands out in open contrast to that of most colleges, a point brought out in a recent Yale News. For its own purposes, Harvard has arranged such a schedule as is most expedient in its own particular case. The vast number of examinations and the three hour duration of each one are facts which combine to justify the period of two weeks and a half. Furthermore, it is firmly believed that a plan which involves more than a single examination in one day defeats its own purpose when the physical...
...stiff battle, matching strides with the Olympic man throughout the last quarter of the mile race. Only a spurt by Lermond on the last lap which gave him an eight yard lead, was all that defeated the University runner. Last Saturday Reid was in the midst of a stiff midyear examination schedule, and as a result was not quite up to his usual form...
Students who have not yet availed themselves of the services of the Phi Betr. Kappa Tutoring Bureau and who are planning to receive instruction from that source in preparation for their Midyear Examinations, should communicate by writing or in personal interview with O. S. Loud, Matthews 60. Regular hours for such interviews will be held no longer, but immediate attention will be given any request that is received...
Although work on the winter track squad will be confined for the most part to short workouts during the midyear examination period, time trials in all events will be run off this afternoon. According to the schedule of track practice, time trials are held every Saturday afternoon throughout the year except on days when meets are scheduled, thus enabling Coach E. L. Farrell to check up on the improvement of various members of the squad as the season progresses...