Word: midyears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although most fraternity pledges survive their initiations with a whole skin, suffering only from jitters induced by mouthing blindfold a human eye (fried egg or oyster) or worms (cold spaghetti), the week after midyear examinations during which most U. S. campuses test their fraternity men is well named Hell Week...
...Three agreement does not dictate the program of finals, midyears, hour or makeup exams in each University any more than it sets the requirements for a passing grade in Freshman English. When Harvard abolished November and March probation for upperclassmen and then reduced midyear pro, it was never felt by those in Cambridge that such action was in any way the concern of Yale or Princeton...
...debates, and promoted some Freshman plays. They also promoted a smoker and several dances, securing well-known entertainers for these social events. Moreover, the Union Committee supplies an innovation, obtaining instructors in the various elementary courses to give free reviews for the benefit of the Freshmen just before the midyear and final examinations...
These sessions, hold for the first time before the midyear examinations, are intended to help Freshmen and any other Undergraduates to arrange their work in reviewing for the all-important finals...
James Tobin, of Champaign, Illinois, a Prize Fellowship holder, has been awarded the Briggs Prize Book given annually to the Freshman whose essay on the midyear examination in History 1 best combines skill in historical treatment with distinction in literary style...