Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the last 20 years, therefore, Harvard and Yale have rowed 19 races, including a two-mile race on the Housatonic River in 1918. There was no race in 1917. During this period each university won a series of six consecutive races and of the total number rowed Harvard won ten and Yale nine...
Beginning in 1911, F. J. Sexton, Brown '93, later with the Boston National League team, coached until the middle of the 1915 season, when he resigned and was succeeded by P. D. Haughton '99. During this period Harvard won three of the five series...
...brief notes on the Reading Period from the Library's point of view I contributed to the CRIMSON earlier in the week, one point was not mentioned which is worth calling to the attention of men who are planning their work carefully. The so-called Reading Period of two weeks follows directly after the Christmas Recess, which is often used as a reading period, and immediately precedes the examination period, which is most distinctly a time for reading. In fact, if we choose to regard it so, we are to have a "reading period" covering six successive weeks...
...your examinations fall at favorable times, you can do part of your review work in the Reading Period and part of your extra reading in the examination period. Anything that extends the limits of the Reading Period diminishes the pressure on the Library and thereby improves the service which the Library can render...
...However well you make your plans, you are liable to be blocked unexpectedly at some point. The longer the period over which you extend your reading, the more elastic your plans can be and the less they will be disturbed by occasional failure...