Word: recess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...secretary has sent blanks to all members of the class which it is hoped will be filled out and returned before the spring recess. If any men have been omitted from the list the secretary hopes that he will be informed of the fact. The postal cards mentioned in the circular will be sent out during this week...
...secretary has sent blanks to all members of the class which it is hoped will be filled out and returned before the spring recess. If any men have been omitted from the list the secretary hopes that he will be informed of the fact. The postal cards mentioned in the circular will be sent out during the following week...
...weeks and the spring term less than 8, including the examination period. Such a division of the year's work seems extraordinarily unequal; and, if nothing else, manifestly unfair to those students who, having friends or relatives in other colleges or schools which as usual have the Easter recess at the beginning of April, naturally expected to be able to see them during the vacation...
There appears this morning in another column a communication on the change of the spring recess. The writer is evidently in earnest, but his position seems to us a mistaken one. He argues that there is a great inequality in the length of the autumn, winter and spring terms, and implies that the vacation he proposes would remedy this alleged evil. According to his division of the year's work, the autumn term contains about twelve weeks, the winter term fifteen weeks, and the spring term less than eight weeks. It takes but little calculation to determine that the vacation...
...concerned, is almost invariably an unpleasant one. Experience has shown that the plans of vacation after vacation have been upset by stormy or disagreeable weather. As we said last year in discussing this same subject before the change had been made, we believe that even if the old recess did divide the year a trifle more equally, this theoretical advantage is much more than counterbalanced by the practical advantage to be gained from a vacation that gives the greatest promise of making open-air amusements possible...