Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increase the size and number of services to students, such as airport shuttles, skit trips, shuttles to athletic, CPR classes and Model Mugging classes. The Student Affairs Committee would be able to fund the Interhouse Facebooks, as well as a speaker series and IOP forums on such issues as calendar reform...
...people, and I would not even say the majority, have a bad image of the council. In the press, we are constantly portrayed as the flawed council of the past. This year, the council has seen a rebirth which has manifested itself in everything from packed Yale shuttles to calendar reform, from record-usage airport shuttles to packed comedy shows, and the upcoming monumental events known as David Spade, They Might Be Giants and Yardfest...
...appears that the Undergraduate Council might be able to improve the situation. The council has endorsed a revised calendar plan which would schedule fall semester exams before winter break, with a longer intersession and significant Reading Periods. The student affairs committee is now negotiating with the Committee on Undergraduate Education to establish a proposal to submit to the Faculty Council this spring...
...council's calendar requires foregoing only a couple of one-day holidays and starting classes in early September. That's certainly not too much to pay for a real winter break...
Also, the current two-semester system, which inevitably requires mid-year exams, is relatively new. As late as the nineteenth century, the Harvard calendar included three terms. Of course, this was a time when the specific courses were mandatory and included such tantalizing subjects as Livy, Horace and English Grammar...