Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another interesting innovation is about to be tested in the field of education. Harvard university, if is believed, is considering a plan whereby classes and lectures will be suspended for a period of several weeks before mid-year and final examinations. Such a move is designed primarily to give students additional time for personal investigation as well as more chance to prepare for finals...
American college youths have so long been accustomed to a paternalistic attitude on the part of the institutions that they might fail to realize the benefits accruing from the suggested period of research at their own will. In English universities, where the plan is now in use, it has been the product of gradual evolution, and the students there have been brought to a gradual understanding of the importance of properly utilizing their pre-examination respite. To suddenly thrust such a change on the college students of this country might raise serious difficulties for the plan, and possibly result...
...Southern Reconstruction: Second Period", Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall...
...more to be expected that it will alleviate the pangs of transition between one method and the other. That such a radical change as this could be effected with no academic mortality it would be absurd to comtemplate, and the gradual substitution, of the new reading period for lectures should do much to reduce this mortality...
...outlined, the method provides for a cessation of classroom activity for two and a half week prior to mid year examinations and a discontinuance of pedagogical work during a three and a half week period preceding finals in June. Neither students nor instructors may leave the campus during these periods without permission...