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Professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting were sharply divided over a recommended change to the academic calendar that would move final exams to before winter break, possibly paving the way for a third academic term in January...
While the decision will not be put to a Faculty-wide vote until the curricular review nears completion at least a year from now, professors expressed spirited arguments for both sides. Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, also the chair of the University Calendar Committee, reported on his committee’s findings...
...report, released March 22, recommended adopting the so-called 4-1-4 calendar currently in use at five of Harvard’s graduate schools as well as other colleges and universities such as Williams...
Verba said his committee had extensively debated its two major options—maintaining the current Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) calendar or moving to one that would better align the calendars of all of Harvard’s schools by moving final exams to before winter break...
Harvard, for whatever reason, schedules its spring break at a time when every other college in America has already had its vacation and is back in session. Even a school like Princeton, with an academic calendar similar to Harvard’s, holds its vacation earlier. There’s no real practical reason for having spring break so late. Hotels and airfare cost the same; the weather is not improved...