Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have. They did. They chopped fall reading period into a miserable relic, all of eight days long. Last year's ten day reading period was inadequate enough, and the University spared itself vehement complaints only by asserting that its brevity was due to an unfortunate juncture of the calendar and Corporation by-laws which would never happen again. Not only is this year's shorter, however, but apparently it is permanent as well...
Second, even if it is possible to race through the reading period tasks in eight days, there will be little time left for reviewing purposes--an especially important fact now that exam period has lost two days itself. And for those whose exams, thanks to another unfortunate juncture of calendar and by-laws, are squeezed into the first few days of examination period, adequate preparation will be impossible...
...Julian calendar (introduced...
...16th century, ten extra days had already piled up. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII produced a solution: the ten days were dropped at once. Then he also decreed the dropping of three leap-year days every 400 years. With these adjustments the new calendar year was only 26 seconds ahead of the sun which means that each 3,323 years one day must be dropped. (Impending drop: 4905 A.D.) By the 18th century, only Russia, Protestant Sweden and England were holdouts against the "Popish" calendar. In 1752 the elegant Lord Chesterfield persuaded Parliament to give in to Gregory...
...Russia held out till 1918. As a result, the Bolshevik coup of Nov. 7 took place on Oct. 23 by the official Russian calendar, which is why it is known as the October Revolution...