Word: friday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decreed that the Harvard College Christmas Holidays shall extend from December 23 to January 2 inclusive. But the fallibility of tradition has been brought to light in a striking fashion this year when the second of January falls on a Thursday, making it compulsory to attend classes on the Friday and Saturday directly after the holidays. To some this is perfectly reasonable, as enough classes meet in those days to make the return to Cambridge worth-while. But to those who are reading in all courses save one, the benefit to be gained from attending a single class on Friday...
...Inasmuch as traveling time is allowed only at the beginning of holidays, the necessity of returning from a distance to attend one class is doubly irksome. A notoriously unfortunate case this year is of one man who must return three days early from California in order to attend one Friday class...
...college should grant the extra day or two as an extended vacation period to men who have only one or two classes before the week-end. It will be hardly reasonable to expect men to return next year for Saturday classes when January 2 falls on a Friday. The benefit of the single class cannot offset the benefit of two extra day's holiday...
Playing much the same game as it displayed last Friday against B. U., the Harvard basketball team last night gave the M. I. T. quintet its first setback of the season by a 33 to 24 score...
Harvard's team proved itself to be one of the fastest, though lightest teams here in several years in its first game of the season last Friday, when it defeated B. U. 44-24. The Crimson squad is potentially powerful, and has been well grounded on fundamentals, but there are some rough spots to be smoothed over before it can conquer M. I. T. M. E. Peirce '30 and T. I. Nido '30, who started their first game for the Crimson on Friday are again in the opening lineup...