Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quirk in this year's calendar brings to mind the question: Can presidents and valentines truly share a weekend? (Don't answer that, Mr. Clinton.) If anyone can bring the be-mine spirit to the Beltway, it's Frank Capra...
...calendar slouches toward the big triple zero, the prudent citizen reviews options: 1) ascend a barren hillside and wait for the world and the millennium hype to end; 2) turn on a computer and watch its date-bollixed software seize up; 3) agree with the grumps who point out that since there was no year zero, the millennium will not crash down on our heads till 2001; or 4) agree with the Chinese, who point out that this year's date is 4635, so why worry...
Following this break, the instructor repeats the half-hour introduction given 45 minutes earlier. Students interested in two classes meeting at 10 a.m. can thus catch the full presentation in both courses. This system benefits students, instructors, and the academic calendar in four significant and noteworthy ways...
...enjoy a true break from their courses, Harvard leaves its students with no work-free vacations whatsoever, with the beautiful exception of intersession. When "intersession" is reduced to two days off after five months of straight work, we have to start wondering whether those who create our yearly calendar have any interest in our collective mental health...
...intersession also forces another calendar oddity: the Wednesday-to-Tuesday shopping period, which prevents students from catching up on work for classes over a weekend--all the more reason to preserve a week-long intersession. Full-year courses that assign work over intersession also do their part toward destroying our only semblance of a vacation...