Word: periodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good many Faculty members will lose sleep between the third and sixth of February. The third is the last day of the final examination period, and, according to a preliminary announcement handed to the Faculty last week, all "Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9" courses will hold examinations on that last day. At least five of these courses are large ones, involving from 100 to 200 bluebooks, each crammed with essay answers...
Without scrapping the rotating schedules, there remain two ways to case the burden on instructors teaching the courses involved. First, University Hall might advance the deadline for grades in those courses which meet toward the end of the exam period. If this would make it too tough for the Administrative Board to examine the grades of students going on or coming off probation, there is another possibility: The inter-term recess might be lengthened. This would allow instructors more time to deal fully with the bluebooks, and it would give students the satisfaction of knowing that a term's work...
...escape into outer space, Lewis pointed out, requires an initial speed of 6.95 miles a second (25,020 m.p.h.). This requirement cannot be dodged by running the rocket motor slowly over a long period; that would only waste energy by forcing the ship to carry heavy fuel to a greater height...
...attention of students is called to the face that under the regulations of the faculty they are expected to be in residence during the Reading Period, which lasts from January 5 to 18 inclusive...
...outstanding match of the afternoon was Al Sawyer's victory over Wilbur Haggerty. Sawyer came from behind is the second period to overcome a 2-0 deficit and win, 3-2. He is in excellent shape and has good wrestling technique; he is cool, fast, has plenty of guts, and proved he could set his own pace...