Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former years, Professor Davison will give each day during the examination period a brief organ recital at Appleton Chapel beginning immediately after the service of daily morning prayers...
Again the Reading Period has been pronounced an official success, this time from the medical point of view. In support of the thesis that the health of the undergraduate body had been better during the pre-examination respite the Department of Hygiene cites the figures for excused absences during January and May 1928. Upper-classmen show the most remarkable improvement, while the first-year men, who come under the influence of the Reading Period only in exceptional cases, have been little less sickly than during the days before the innovation...
...spite of its drawbacks the Reading Period has probably been of benefit to student scholarship in many respects. Nevertheless there is no justification for construing all statistics into a blanket endorsement. The report has no weight in estimating the value of the Reading Period, since it says no more than that when classes are few excuses are few. Such obvious attempts at whitewash can hardly do more than prejudice an innovation which deserves careful study during a period of experimentation...
Perhaps the niceties of the profession are to be found nowhere to better advantage than in the function of timekeeper. Too frequent calling of the hour has a tendency to create unfortunate emotional situations in the examinees and a mere announcement as the period draws to a close that "this examination will close in five minutes" is a brutality of which every one will admit the danger...
This is shown by comparing the absences from college duties during the weeks of no classes and the rest of the year. During the January Reading Period of last year students sick days totalled only 66 percent of the average for the other months of the college year. In the May respite, the percentage...