Word: calendaring
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...they stay home the next day. Or they drive to Grandma's, or go to the movies. But however they spend Christmas Day - "the feast of Christmas" on the Christian liturgical calendar - one way most Americans don't celebrate it is by going to church. While demand for Christmas Eve celebrations is so high that some churches hold as many as five or six different services on the 24th of December, most Protestant churches are closed on the actual religious holiday. For most Christians, Christmas is a day for family, not faith. (See the top 10 religion stories...
...charged mostly with encouraging administrators to implement the recommendations. Both the Flores and Schwartz platforms also discuss January term plans. No formal plans have yet been announced for this period which will fall between the end of winter break and the beginning of the second semester after the calendar change takes effect next year. —Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at cshover@fas.harvard.edu...
...worked on calendar reform and social space...
...framed student life reforms as health and safety issues in the past too, a strategy they employed last year in promoting a change in the academic calendar...
...winter break, leaving Princeton as the only Ivy League university with exams in January. To accommodate this change, classes will start two weeks earlier in September and end three days earlier in April. As undergraduates enter their last exam-free December, many students on campus are enthusiastic about the calendar reform. “It’s better because we won’t have to worry about exams over winter break. We get to have closure before break,” said Anna J. Murphy ’12. Bonnie Cao ’12, echoed this sentiment...