Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other times, other customs is doubtless the excuse. This tradition takes its place along with the ten thousands that the Divisional and the Reading Period have slain. Some Seniors have survived the first, and have gone; some are suffering the second, and stay; in neither case are there classes to attend, and so, reasons the Senior, there is no need of wearing his regalia. Yet this custom is none of the puerile collegiate tricks to which Harvard long since turned thumbs down; it is a dignified and respected tradition, with a long tale of years behind it. The University, becoming...
...repeated assertions of the University authorities that have followed upon the conclusion or commencement of each succeeding Reading Period to the effect that unquestioned success has crowned this educational adventure are at least open to suspicion...
...only tangible facts upon which such--conclusions are to be drawn are necessarily limited. Aside from information based upon widely varied personal experience, the accessible facts are limited to a check-up or attendance in Widener over the particular period in question...
...fact has not been taken into consideration, namely: the assignment of reading during the reading period. Required reading, covering as often as not, work that formerly was undertaken by the lecturer on the platform, has been in part responsible for the industrious atmosphere of the Reading Room. It has not been possible in every case for the head of the course to slice two periods of two to three weeks each from the accustomed syllabus. It has thus become necessary that the reading period complement the preceding lectures in finishing up the normal demands of the syllabus. What was hailed...
...student may indeed be frowned upon. . .and with considerable reason. Nor are the professors to be criticized for the inability or unwillingness to grant this academic entre-acte. But by the same tokens the enthusiastic assertions of the college authorities in support and praise of the reading period should wait upon a broader investigation of the facts...