Word: semis
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THIS was the notice on a student's door during the Semi-annuals: "Hours for visitors are from...
...Faculty would hold examinations in the evening, the time of the Semi-annuals might be still further shortened...
...invention? I really do not know. Perhaps it is like one of Krupp's guns. If so, what excellent swabbers and rammers and powder-monkeys the proctors would make! Perhaps - but why should I speculate? Why should the idea - the exceedingly faint and undefined idea - that at the approaching semi-annuals the brains of each and every one of us are to be carefully removed, dissected, weighed, and measured by this infallible instrument transform me into a querulous interrogation-point? Let us welcome the new machine, and accept with courage its edicts, conscious that they will be an improvement upon...
...Sophomore Class Supper will not take place till after the semi-annuals...
THERE is a rumor that instructors have it at their option to hold recitations or not on the three days preceding the semi-annuals...