Word: half-year
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...privileges which have been recently voted by the Faculty. We refer, in particular, to the new rule requiring Seniors and Juniors to take twelve hours, and Sophomores ten hours of elective studies throughout the year. We have been allowed, up to this time, to take as many hours each half-year as we wished, provided that the sum-total for the two half-years equalled twenty-four hours; a privilege which was very valuable to many faithful students. To applicants for honors, particularly, the liberty to take the larger amount of work during the first half-year was very important...
THERE seems to have been some misunderstanding at the University Bookstore about delivering the Crimson. Subscribers for the second half-year, whether they have paid their subscriptions or not, are entitled to the first number of the present volume...
...following are the battalion officers of the Harvard Rifle-Corps for the second half-year: President, H. C. Mulligan, '79; Secretary, C. A. Hobbs, '80; Treasurer, J Quincy, Jr., '80; Major, C. W. Bradley. '80; Adjutant, T. H. Simmons, '80; Quartermaster, C. H. W. Foster, '81; Sergeant Major, Jared S. How, '81; Quartermaster Sergeant, J. M. Gibbons, '81, Companies A and B will elect company officers at their next regular meetings...
...made known to the student in season, he might prefer to attend the course prescribed, and endeavor to obtain a more satisfactory mark at the regular examination, and he certainly ought to have such opportunity. But all the information he could obtain in the case of Soph. History (first half-year) was that he passed the examination. He was left in ignorance of his mark until the shortness of the time precluded any attempt to better it at the semiannual examination. I have been gratified to hear that the marks in the History for the second half-year have been...
...manifest. In the case above mentioned, many had taken the elective who had no great knowledge of the subject, but who expected, by diligent work, to succeed tolerably well; the examination was of such difficulty that most of them failed, and the result will be that during the second half-year they will either overwork or neglect their work, thinking that labor is of no avail...