Word: interims
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Well, Smith girls loved it too. In a pool conducted this September by the Sophian, the semi-weekly Smith newspaper, 93% of the student body said they wanted interim continued. This was the third year of the experiment; the year in which its fate would be decided...
...despite irrefutable evidence that the students were in favor of Interim, the Smith faculty and administration voted this week to return to a pre-examination reading period next year...
...Faculty vote kills Interim--'Nobel Experiment' Fails" wrote the Sophian on page one, and gave the experiment its last elegy on the editorial page. No reasons were given by the faculty for its decision...
...every girl utilizes her three weeks in a way that would make interesting copy in a brochure about Interim. Some, of course, learn a new language, teach themselves art history, write mammoth papers, or discover they are great actresses. In heavy snow some trudge to hear a visiting lecturer speak on Plato's "Ion." But another group of girls takes the opposite path, playing bridge for long hours every day and joking about their own apathy. "I guess I'm just not as intellectually curious as I thought I was," one doll-like freshman said with a bland smile...
...largest group of girls, however, falls somewhere in between. They rush feverishly from activity to project, checking off the items on the neat lists they have posted in their rooms. If you ask them about Interim they hasten to tell you just what they are doing and what a good program it is. And yet they are dying for more direction. When it become known that the faculty opposed Interim, one girl wrote to the newspaper appealing to the faculty to "please define a successful Interim." Another girl, busy but unhappy, bemoaned the school's ban on organized activities, like...