Word: midyears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Progress of the experimental group was compared with the records made by a control group of 16 Freshmen, with admission records similar to those of the control group. The control group was given no special training. Comparison of Midyear with November grades showed that while ten students in the experimental group had better records, only five of the "control" group had made improvement...
...most Freshmen, academics will be a hard grind from now until after midyear examinations, next February. Family, faculty advisors, and upperclassmen friends all say "Make a good impression. Work hard now if you never do again." And obedient Yardlings--too many of them--languish long afternoons and evenings in Boylston Hall, a little awed by the lecture method of teaching, more than a little worried by the inevitable unfinished History 1 assignments, sincerely terrified by the prospect of November and Midyear examinations. Most Freshmen, in other words, are too conscientious...
...last term was Caspar Griswold Bacon (Harvard '08), onetime Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and now both a special student at Harvard and a member of Harvard College's Board of Overseers. Mr. Bacon, taking a course in American Constitutional Government, crammed at Wolff's and at midyear...
Resuming their League schedule after nearly four weeks of midyear lull, the Varsity puckmen will face off with a dangerous Dartmouth six tonight at the Boston Garden in the opening game of a very tough February ice campaign...
Tonight's game will be just the ticket for Clark Hodder, as it will serve the dual purpose of whipping the team back into shape after the midyear armistice and giving the squad a taste of the very tough opposition that it will have to face in this month's League encounters...