Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ultimate results of the Reading Period will be determined by each individual--each man constituting in his own case the best judge. A concrete test will come in the shape of the mid-year and final examinations. But even now, after five days' trial of the plan, one thing has been proved: the halls of learning have not been deserted in wholesale fashion. Whatever else has happened, reading is being done Whether that reading is accomplishing any permanent results is a question for the future. But anyone who doubts the ability of the undergraduate to rise voluntarily before...
...speak, on the hoof. Also the more enterprising, by skating close to the banks of the river, may set up a new record for the freshman cross country course, proving the superiority of runners over the orthodox track method. It is appropriate that in the middle of a Reading Period one should have again the Wordsworthian experience of trying to catch the moon, while it glimmers in the dark ice just ahead. Nature does not need to temper her wind to the shorn lamb, not to those whose shearing is close at hand. For the rugged body is almost...
Following the mid-year examination period two teams will be organized to play each other and later to meet the teams of nearby swimming clubs. Muir at present coaches swimming and water polo at Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Huntington School...
...machine in this case automatically erases and captures the new shade of tone. In the practice of set speeches or the rehearsal of a difficult scene in a play, this ability of the telegraphone to change its record of the student's voice proves invaluable. And after the period of instruction, at the will of the instructor, the record may be preserved for eternity or simply be rubbed out and the wire made ready for the next day's work...
...surprising that this group is a minority; it is astounding to find that it is tolerated. Misplaced as any zenl for combined study in the workshop of a university is, it assumes proportions larger than those of mere annoyance when it thwarts an educational experiment. The Reading Period, it has been said, depend for a fair trial upon the co-operation of Library and student. The Library's assistance has been wholehearted and complete, that of the student deserves no impairment at the hands of the thoughtless. No one would wish a permanent "verboten" to be hung on communication...