Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although more than a week has elapsed since another Reading Period came to a close, the examinations which in the final analysis are accepted as the most adequate proof of its success are still looming ominously ahead of weary undergraduates. Even if official reports again magnify the advantages of the Reading Period, as the CRIMSON has predicted, to those students who have found it imperative to spend long hours of each day in order to accomplish the prescribed work, mid-years present a more dangerous outlook...
Merely because lectures are discontinued, the period preceding examinations is not in any way prolonged, as some seem to believe; and accordingly whatever reading is assigned ought not to tax the student to a greater extent than would the old system during a similar length of time. Theoretically the Reading Period is not intended to increase the burden of education, but rather to stimulate new interests by a temporary substitution for didactic methods...
...second and most important half of the University hockey season will get under way next Wednesday, when the first practice since the beginning of the examination period will call Harvard hockey players from their mid-year hibernation...
...exposed page of a blue-book he read "The significant thing in the work of Blogdenthorp is that he represents his period both in style and material." At once he recognized the English 99 1-2 formula, and knew that his intuition had been right. Beckoning his comrades to him, he seized upon the writer of the betraying words. Great was the surprise when he found it was not a human being but a mechanical man, a perfected robot. The head came off in his hands. Examining it closely, he found it contained a replaceable cylinder on which was written...
...numerous cases of smaller executives resigning from their positions in order to continue research which they considered would be more profitable than retaining an administrative post. The possible ramifications of such a discussion are infinite, but it is highly probable that when our present educational system emerges from its period of transition, trained executives will hold the positions now filled by scholars...