Word: midyearitis
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...Freshman team, and Lorrin Woodman, who could on occasion, come down from 155 pounds, are also strong contenders. Dave Tufts, promising in the sport, had won two matches as heavyweight before he was temporarily put out of the running by an infected knee, which also kept him from midyear exams...
Charity may begin at home, but for one aspiring Freshman, the true meaning of virtue was made manifest in a blaze of light when he received his corrected History 1 midyear. To the bottom of the essay question, which had been crossed and checked and scribbled over by the mentor, was appended the following generous award: "One point for partial neatness...
Dean Donham's Business School will henceforth be a "school of public and private business." Last week it enrolled its initial batch of public business students in a special session which begins at midyear. The first regular class enters next autumn. Public business students live, study, eat, go to many of their classes with future vice presidents of business houses. When they, get through they will be fitted for jobs with such governmental business ventures as the Tennessee Valley Authority, such financial agencies as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, such regulatory bodies as the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Sophomore year, when tutoring begins, there ought to be a trial period during which all students would be tutored very much as at present. By midyear the tutors would have had an opportunity to size up their men, to know which ones were obtaining benefit from the work and which were not. From that point on, the two types of students would be subjected to different disciplines
...receive an honor grade in the course. I found the marking fair and impartial. The reading assigned was not onerous, tests were few, and essays often replaced hour examinations. The midyear and final examinations gave a wide latitude of choice in the questions, and the papers were not red-pencilled for meticulous factual errors...