Word: recess
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instructors in the undergraduate department speaks of the mid-year examinations as the "recess...
SNODKINS has been making calls in Cambridge during the Recess. The mother of one of his lady friends took interest enough in him to inquire what were his intentions in regard to her daughter. "My intentions are to leave, madam," said the hero; and he did. Bravo, Snodkins! (Fact...
...experiment of cutting off two days at the end of the Christmas recess has been tried now for two years, and we hope that the Faculty are ready to come back to the full two weeks. The impracticability of really beginning the term on Friday has, it seems to us, been fully demonstrated. In the first place, the students do not get back; the temptation to put off one's return to college until the beginning of the next week is more than average flesh and blood can resist. In the second place, the instructors do not hold their recitations...
ENTRANCE CONDITIONS. - Examinations in French, German, Modern and Physical Geography, and Physical Science (Old Method) will be held at the close of the Christmas Recess...
...Hall will be kept open during the Christmas recess. Those members who remain will pay the regular price for board. Those members who are absent will receive full allowance, provided they give notice of such absence an or before December 20. At the close of the recess the Auditor shall ascertain the amount of the deficit, if any, due to the Christmas recess, and shall assess the same equally upon all the members of the Association...