WEEK OF 5/6/2024
HL’S PIECES
We are just days away from putting this academic year to bed! So stay strong… you can do it!
Here is this week’s “photo of the week” featuring our Sophomore Lions singing at our Karaoke Party last Tuesday! Dr. B took the picture from our balcony and you can see the packed house and electric energy sizzling through the crowd! Thank you everyone for the beautiful memory book!
Without further ado, here is a very quick word from Dean Mahurin…
Àshe,
HL
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Epilogue
BY ROBERT LOWELL
Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme—
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled?
I hear the noise of my own voice:
The painter’s vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.
But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot,
lurid, rapid, garish, grouped,
heightened from life,
yet paralyzed by fact.
All’s misalliance.
Yet why not say what happened?
Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun’s illumination
stealing like the tide across a map
to his girl solid with yearning.
We are poor passing facts,
warned by that to give
each figure in the photograph
his living name.
DATES AND DEADLINES
May 8, Wednesday: Final Examinations End!
BUT BEFORE YOU GO BACK TO STUDYING, HEED THESE IMPORTANT NOTES ON END OF TERM
Remember that, in addition to being the last day of exams, May 8 is also the final possible date for the submission of term papers and term projects. Of course, individual instructors may set deadlines for earlier than this date, even as they have full discretion to set deadlines as late as this date. Beyond May 8, coursework may be submitted only with a Temporary Incomplete from me; your instructor cannot set deadlines or issue extensions for beyond May 8, even in graduate or professional school courses. Yale College considers such deadlines and extensions invalid, and the work will not be counted toward your grade.
As with Dean’s Extensions, the Academic Regulations permit Temporary Incompletes in only a limited range of circumstances; contact me right away if you anticipate needing one so that we can discuss your situation. Postponements of scheduled final examinations (via ABX: “All But eXam”) also require my intervention, and may be authorized under the same set of circumstances as Dean’s Extensions and Temporary Incompletes. As always, if you find yourself in any kind of trouble relating to the submission of work or the taking of exams, let me know right away – I’m very happy to consult on these points.