Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June issue of the Advocate will appear the report of the committee appointed by the Student Council to consider a working plan for the reading periods adopted by vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2. The reading periods involve the curtailment of actual teaching by members of the Faculty from the present 31 week period to a 25 week limit, by the cessation of lecture instruction for two and a half weeks before midyear examinations and three weeks before final examinations...
Five phases of the respite are considered in the report, which deals in turn with the matter of examinations, students' work during the reading periods, competitions and extra-curricular activities, tutorial work, and absence from Cambridge of students during the respite period...
...will spend a couple of weeks in England before engaging there Oxford-Cambridge opponents. The match with the latter will differ from the ordinary American college form of six singles and three doubles contests. Twenty-one individual matches will be played in all, extending over a three day period from July 31 to August...
...That period of commencement day addresses which continues throughout June is already upon us. Everywhere prominent men are drawn back from the arena to the cloister for a day to exhort with the Senior suddenly become Freshman again. Too often these sermons from high finance, high politics, or high poetics, are stodgy, or sentimental, or pluto-patriotic, or even cheap pamphleteering. Mr. McAdoo, for instance, has taken advantage of his position as commencement orator to wave the black flag of the Anti-Saloon League and then attempt to pull a Houdini on his audience by telling them it is identical...
...present period of extensive building operations which are changing the external appearance of Harvard and enlarging her material boundaries has seen no more important or successful erections than those imposing Georgian edifices which line the Cambridge banks of the Charles. The Freshman Dormitory System, eminently an expression of the new Harvard, has proved its worth. In thirteen years it has become so integral a part of the University that one wonders whether or not its value is restrictive to a larger Harvard--whether it would not have greatly added to that smaller and more centralized institution whose era preceded...