Word: recess
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should purchase their holiday presents early. It happens each year that many men come in during the last two days before the Recess, too late to find a good assortment...
...students are reminded of the fact that, by the rules of the library, every man who leaves Cambridge during the Christmas recess is required to return all borrowed books before going...
...lose nothing by cutting down the vacation to such very narrow limits. The attendance in the courses during the week before and the week after vacation might seem to be a sufficient proof of how little regard is had by the men for the actual dates of the Christmas recess. But it seems that the faculty gets a grim satisfaction by worrying the consciences of those men who spend what we deem a perfectly legitimate holiday at home. What systematic and persistent complaint can do we have tried to do, but there are those whom not even the fates...
...should purchase their holiday presents early. It happens each year that many men come in during the last two days before the Recess, too late to find a good assortment...
...FRIDAY.The Christmas Recess begin this...