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...administration which (with varying degrees of subtlety) has to date been credited with a conspiratorial firing, a nefarious pre-registration scheme and exacerbating a mental health crisis. But some changes benefit students, and skepticism shouldn’t obscure the merits of updating Harvard’s archaic academic calendar. The Crimson Staff, for example, said recently that getting bogged down with term papers and take-home projects after winter holidays is “leisurely,” offering students “plenty of time” to sample fine wines, ponder life, maybe take long, windy walks...
...plenty of time” exists, and that’s why reading period is a quagmire. Professors assign more readings and research papers during the regular term than they otherwise would, were there less unscheduled time to finish it all. Eliminating reading period from the calendar would also eliminate the onerous work accompanying it. Where workload must be standardized among many different course offerings, as in the Core, this would be particularly effective: Harvard could force professors to get rid of superfluous readings and to choose between a few shorter papers and a single research project...
...better solution is to have fall exams before Thanksgiving. Designing its calendar, Harvard must defer to the greatest thinkers of the West: It should switch to a trimester system like the one currently in place for undergraduates at Stanford University. Trimesters would let students take nine courses in a year for the price of eight—three each term, with condensed courses providing a more concentrated academic experience without the frivolous projects. Competition from peer institutions and a shorter school year overall would hollow any excuses for a tuition hike. Although Stanford schedules its fall exams just before winter...
Therefore, Harvard should modify Stanford’s calendar to make each trimester earlier by a few weeks. The fall term would begin after Labor Day, with exams before Thanksgiving. (As courses’ exam groups are published in advance, students who want desperately to get home to California or otherwise spend their late Novembers away from school could choose wisely and still get a longer Thanksgiving vacation.) With a winter term just beginning, the intense pressures to study over the holidays would be gone; and, for that matter, Thanksgiving would be salvaged as well, following immediately after fall exams...
Under the current academic calendar, Harvard traditionally plays the majority of its games during the fall semester, but the bulk of its Ivy League schedule during the spring semester. It is unclear during which semester Cusworth would participate...