Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-known activity of the Bureau is its semi-annual reading course. Last fall two sections, meeting at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., attracted 300 men and women. Freshmen who showed deficiencies in speed or comprehension on their placement tests made up most of the class, but every spring the course draws a large number of people from the College, graduate schools, and even from the Faculty seeking to improve their reading...
Lamont Library will probably repeat its mid-year experiment in extended library hours during the spring reading and examination period, Philip J. McNiff, director of Lamont, indicated yesterday...
...juniors have already been allowed to reduce their degree requirements by one half-course so that they may do individual work this spring. This initial step in Advanced Standing coincides with the announcement made two days ago by Harlan P. Hanson '46, Director of Advanced Standing, concerning a similar program fee ten Harvard juniors...
Lamont maintained a similar project last spring which ran for five weeks instead of the three this year. McNiff estimated the recent program cost $400 less than the $1600 of last spring...
There has been a steady demand for extended hours over the years. When it was found last fall that the Faculty was considering not repeating last spring's experiment, Stephen L. Reynolds '95 formed a library committee from the Student Council to determine the need for library extensions...