Word: mid-years
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...Dejonge '14, of Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y., died at his home on Wednesday morning. For several days during the mid-year period he was in the Stillman Infirmary, but he recovered sufficiently to return to his home. There he contracted a severe cold which developing into pneumonia proved fatal...
There, then, is the first Monthly under Mr. Mariett's regime. The reviewer, knowing somewhat of the difficulties of a mid-year issue, respectfully takes...
...lecturer. Unlike most of our large courses, English 2 has no section meetings, reports, or theses. The marks are therefore deduced entirely from examinations. Without stopping to criticize this scheme, a relic of an obsolete system of undergraduate instruction, the writer would call attention to the character of the mid-year examination recently given by the professor in charge...
...communication printed on another page concerning the recent mid-year examination in English 2 makes interesting reading. A three-hour test with 61 sub-divisions can hardly be called typical of Harvard examinations, nevertheless it does represent a type of examinations only too common in the College at present...
During the mid-year period there is always much discussion of courses for the second half-year. On every side one hears the old, old question: "Do you know of any 'cinch' courses?" The time, energy, and words that are employed in the search for easy courses amounts yearly to an enormous economic waste. Happily, such quests are more frequently made by members of the lower classes than upper-class men. This is because a year or two's experience usually suffices to show an undergraduate that to take a course merely because some friend has confided to him that...