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Summer will be one week shorter than normal for this fall’s incoming first-year class, the result of an effort by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to minimize the year’s conflict between the academic calendar and the Jewish New Year’s holiday of Rosh Hashanah...
While traditionally first-years are required to arrive on campus during the second weekend in September, this fall the date has been pushed back to the first weekend in September. First-years participating in the various opening week programs, such as the First-year Outdoor Program and the Freshman Urban Program will arrive in Cambridge next weekend...
...change in first-year move-in comes as a result of the earlier start of the fall academic year in FAS. Typically the academic year begins on the third Monday in September—which this year falls on Sept. 17—but this year the first day of classes will be held on Sept. 12—the previous Wednesday...
...noted that there have been conflicts in past years between Rosh Hashanah and the University’s academic calendar, particularly in 1999 when the holiday fell on the same weekend as first-year move...
According to this week’s study, out of the almost 600,000 college first-year students who lived in dorms nationwide during the 1998-1999 school year, only 30 contracted bacterial meningitis...