Word: recess
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SENIORS are reminded that their class lives are now due, and that it is desired that all the measurement cards be filled out before the spring recess. Those who have not yet done so will greatly oblige the Class Secretary by sending both in as soon as possible...
...SPRING RECESS...
PROFESSOR CHILD is giving a course of readings from Chaucer. He began last Tuesday evening with the " Clerk's Tale." Mr. Hale will read Catullus early in March, on Wednesday evenings. Mr. Dyer will read the Ajax of Sophocles after the April recess...
...risk of being charged with repetition, I should like to express my disapprobation of the time of the Spring Recess. I think the Faculty would willingly change the time, if a petition could be gotten up showing the desire for a later vacation, especially as Fast Day comes so early this year, and by having the vacation a week later we could participate in the Easter festivities at home...
...request that the Spring Recess shall be postponed until after Lent is made early enough this year for the authorities to take action upon it. There is no conceivable reason for having it in Lent, except that it may include Fast Day; but the observance of Fast Day is completely obsolete, and interests none of us, whereas Lent is a very real thing in many families. All vacations are certainly intended for enjoyment as well as suspension of studies; therefore, to fix one at a season when a decreased amount of pleasure will be obtained by many others besides churchmen...