Word: mid-years
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Tuesday a petition to the faculty of the Law School was hastily written and signed by several members of the school. The petition requests that a departure shall be made from established custom and a mid-year examination be given in Criminal Law. The course is finished just before the midyears, and there appears to be no good reason why an examination should not then be given instead of putting the matter off till June. The only objections that can be brought in opposition to the plan are the additional labor incurred by the examiner, and lack of precedent. Although...
...change in the time of the mid-year examinations is highly advantageous to the students. The second half-year is always more occupied than the first, and any change which tends to relieve it of its over-plus of work cannot but be regarded as a change for the better. When the mid-year examinations have dragged through their, to some of us, rather aimless existence, the startled student finds that the shadow of the cloister-like course of study which he must embrace to survive the annuals is close upon him. In past years, this realization of the coming...
...custom has of late become very popular among various instructors to offer those who take their courses the privilege of deciding whether a mid-year examination shall be held, or hour examinations substituted in its place. It would be impossible to declare positively whether or not the substitution of hour examinations is an advantage in certain courses. It depends entirely upon the nature of a course, whether several fragmentary reviews or one thorough examination would prove the more useful. The character of some courses absolutely demands frequent and exacting tests, which in other courses would be unnecessary, if not ridiculous...
...hour examinations will be substituted in Philosophy 1 for the mid-year examination. One will be held in December and one in March...
...posting of the mid-year examinations is awaited with great interest...