Word: midyears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This creature, whom old grads regard this week with such envy, was amazed to read one spring morning that hour examinations, midyear probation, and compulsory attendance at classes had all been thrown into discard. While these changes, may seem superficial to our older colleagues, they are significant in that they place responsibility directly on the student. In an age when older men consider jobs for the young college graduate only a myth, it is certainly wise to equip him at least with independence and initiative so that he can sail before the wind on this sea of confusion with...
...Beta Kappa will elect the Junior Eight on March 7, it was announced last night by C. Crane Brinton '19, Assistant Professor of History. This year, under the new system, the Junior Eight is elected on the basis of the midyear marks, instead of the November marks as in previous years...
...that midyear examinations are over it seems time to bring forward a criticism which has been made before of the method of examining students on their reading period work. At present this is done by means of a question on the midyear to which the student is supposed to devote an hour, or in some cases a half an hour, of his time...
...time devoted to the question is doubly disproportionate both to the remainder of the examination and to the amount of reading supposedly done during the reading period. The relation of the scope of the regular work in the course to the ground covered in the two week preceding the midyear period is not such as to warrant the setting aside of a whole hour from the examination to test the student's knowledge of the latter. On the other hand, even an hour, in many courses, is by no means a sufficient length of time for an intelligent discussion...
...refusal to keep Widener open in the evenings, not only through the year but also during the reading period, by the budgetary contraction which the present period of reduced income has made necessary. The amount of this appropriation would have sufficed to keep the library open during the midyear and the final reading periods. It has been diverted from the general, unrestricted income. It is not a special grant. Does the college prefer military and naval science to a vital scholastic facility...