Word: mid-years
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Members of Pol. Econ. I who wish to take the make-up mid-year examination will meet Professor Taussig in U. 4 this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
...mid-year marks in History...
...winter term today comes to an end. In many respects it is the most disagreeable of the year, the weather is usually abominable during its ten weeks, and the assiduous application necessary for the mid-year examinations render it difficult for all members of the college. As a reslt from these unpleasant features we naturally look forward to the Easter recess as a period of relaxation from our duties, and a time of social enjoyment at home. As we are about to leave we cannot help but think of the heroic conduct and self-denial of those...
...first place I do not understand why men cannot grind up just before hour examinations as they do before mid-year examinations, and consequently gain almost as little from their work in one case as in the other. It is true the constant feeling of an impending examination would probably cause some men to do better work than they do under the present system. Still the real evil is but slightly mitigated...
...papers can be made so as to involve the tendencies of principles and facts discussed in the half year's work. Furthermore, the brief time in which a man surveys the work of the half year, if he has done his studying systematically, is one of the most valuable periods of his study; for it gives him an idea of the broaden and unity of what he has hitherto seen only in detail. In these two respects, I think the mid-year system of examinations have advantages which hour examinations can never supply...