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...month J-term would fall in between the fall and spring semesters...
...committee—composed of 13 professors and five students—recommends that the month of January be left free of standard curricular requirements. And the decision to hold a formal January term, often called a J-term, or stay on vacation would be “left up to each school,” Martin said...
Discussion of a J-term actually predates the formation of the calendar committee, which occurred last September, according to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...Harvard students and professors already have a January “change of pace”: the winter reading and exam periods, followed by intersession. Even so, it is true that adding the J-term would probably mean even less work—so why wouldn’t Harvard students, following a common cause with their peers everywhere, jump to accept the proposal...
Unfortunately, this free time comes straight out of summer vacation. At a March 1 meeting with students in Currier House, Gross proposed starting classes before Labor Day to make room for the J-term. This would make Harvard summers the briefest in the country, disrupting internships, travel or summer work—all simply to make room for the same kinds of internships, travel or work during January, when fewer are available to college students. Vacation simply cannot be put to the same good use in January with internships less comprehensive, European getaways not as sunny, jobs an impossibility...