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Baseball practice for the University squad will commence in the cage about a week after the mid-year period and for the Freshman squad a little earlier. The pitchers will probably do a little work during the mid-year period. No curved pitching will be used in batting practice, as it is thought that this has tended to injure the batting in former years. Outdoor practice will begin as soon as the weather will permit
Just at this time every year, the undergraduate feels that he is entitled to a breathing spell as far as his academic work is concerned. Hour examinations are over, and there is a general sentiment that no more really strenuous study is required until after the Christmas vacation. Mid-year examinations at present are likely to appear very distant and unimportant to the work of tomorrow and next week...
...work will be conducted under the usual conditions and the customary standard of efficiency will be required. The competition will close shortly before the mid-year examinations...
Under the present system of giving make-up mid-year examinations, the unfortunate undergraduate who happens to be ill during the mid-year period is obliged to take both sets of three-hour examinations at the same time. Finals alone tax the industry and ability of most men to no slight degree, and, if the strain of a second series of tests is added, a man's power to do himself justice is nearly annihilated...
...first competition of the year for positions on the editorial board of the CRIMSON will open this evening. In order that this exacting competition may not interfere unnecessarily with mid-year examinations, it has been decided to follow the precedent set last spring in shortening the period of work to about 13 weeks. The competition will end on or about January 10. In pursuance of the practice of the past two years, the fall competition will not be open to Freshmen, for it is felt that they had better have more than two weeks in which to learn to know...