Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the new lenient regulations, students will undoubtedly cut their classes before and after the Thanksgiving holiday. Let us hope this will not mean the return of stringent regulations on vacation cuts, of monitorships, and of the other accoutrements of schoolboy disciplinarianism. The solution lies not through the chastisement of students, through turning the colleges into a concentration camp, but through the remodelling along modern and logical lines of the vacation itself, making it last from Thanksgiving through the next week...
Sports were forbidden and the "blue" laws were strictly enforced. The day was devoted to church activities and sober conversation about the good fortune of the colonists. During the holiday dinner, 'was the custom in many households for the father to read sermons aloud...
Thanksgiving at first came on no set date, but was proclaimed by the governor when it appeared suitable. Although the favorite month for the holiday was November, it was often set in February and July...
Another rare item in the collection is a proclamation issued by President George Washington, January 1, 1795, setting February 18, 1795 as a national Thanksgiving day. Thanksgiving first became a national holiday as it is known today, in 1863, when Lincoln proclaimed a day following the battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, in 1865 established Thanksgiving for the first time as a national harvest festival...
When Puritan John Winthrop set aside the last Thursday in November as a day for giving thanks unto God, he had no thought of a future legal holiday that would cause difficulties at Harvard. If he had proclaimed Monday as the day of much eating, many students who now remain in Cambridge would be able to share the family turkey at home. Yet the sad fact remains that Thursday is the day. University Hall should accept this fact as inevitable and issue a proclamation about the entire weekend...