Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nose outside the door on Sunday to take a walk, he was not even allowed to dress up on occasions, even if these occasions were not on the Sabbath. In fact elegant dressing seems to have been one of the worst crimes on the Puritan Harvard calendar, as may be seen from the following...
...Easter was in the beginning a pagan spring festival to which the early Church affixed the idea of the Jewish Passover and of the Resurrection. This year the first Passover Seder occurs the evening of Easter Sunday, April 17, a coincidence Church calendar calculators long tried to prevent...
...vanguard of March examinations strangely miscalled the April hours, begins to mark black days on the student calendar, the Vagabond finds himself frequenting more and more the archives of Widener Library...
...weeks of the college year to be free of all classes or any set exercises whatever! And this in addition to the accustomed vacations at Christmas and Easter, though the latter appear somewhat shortened. Was ever a more radical change ordained by Harvard in the undergraduates' calendar since the college was founded? Very evidently the decision rests, however, upon the authorities...
...Harvard calendar, cutting away six weeks of formal lectures and recitations, surely gives liberal allowance to student opinion on this score. But it goes further. It takes very effectively into account the immense amount of work which has been done in recent years in the investigation of all those conditions which may be shown, by scientific test and inquiry, to be the most favorable conditions under which human beings can work and study and enlarge their capacities. The novel departure at Harvard pays real deference, in short, to the modern science of pedagogics. The declaration that "the student must have...