Word: midyearitis
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After an exciting midyear during which the sun was eclipsed on January 24 and, according to predictions by the Seventh Day Adventists, the world was to end in February 6, life in Cambridge went "back to normalcy...
...Desperate cramming and questioning of roommates were to no avail as the whetted intellectual hatchet chopped inexorably into the egos of this year's yearlings. When the smoke...had cleared, when the mental debris had been removed, frosh found themselves baptized by fire and ready to take on midyear exams...
...award is presented at midyear to "the freshman who shows outstanding scholastic and intellectual promise as indicated by distinction in studies and general achievement." It is presented without consideration of financial need, but the stipend varies at the discretion of the Deans Office...
...Midyear-grades can in no way affect a student's status under current regulations; Draft Boards are interested only in the student's class standing during the previous complete academic year, Kennedy said. The Office of the Registrar, therefore, issued no statistics yesterday as to the grades men need to place in the upper half of their classes...
...planes at five times the present rate of production." Actually, the rate barely doubled. Against Truman's goal of 15,000 planes, the U.S. produced fewer than 5,000-and many of these were trainers and transports. The same failure marked the rest of the arms program. At midyear, guided-missiles production was 70% below schedule, tanks 40%, electronics...