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Students will take midyear examinations immediately after they return from Christmas vacation, instead of having two weeks of classes first...
...Midyear exams have been shifted to a point in early January, the authorities said, because the two weeks of classes which now divide Christmas vacation and midyears are an academically representative period. Since Yale has no needing period, students tend to ignore their classes during these weeks and to wait for the actual exam period before studying in earnest...
Finally, the school has found increased expenses in the 16 month "midyear" program which it adopted last year. Under this plan, 72 men between the ages of 25 and 35 have left their businesses to enter the Business School at mid-years, work through the summer, and graduate the following year...
Dispensing with the jargon of professional economists, Dwight Eisenhower last week issued an economic report to the nation that began bluntly with one of the biggest pieces of news since V-E day. "The paramount fact about the economy at midyear," he wrote, "is that the recent decline in economic activity has come to a halt." Two big specifics...
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP travel is setting alltime records. At the midyear mark liners have already carried 367,000 passengers (v. 352,000 at mid-1953). Bookings indicate some 930,000 will sail by year's end. Air travel is also up about...