Word: recess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Every student is required to register not later than 12 m. on the first weekday after the Christmas recess and the first week-day after the April recess...
...health in all the cities about us. In Boston there are at present several cases of smallpox, and one is reported in Somerville, and there is more or less of it all over the country. Just at this time, when college is about to close for the Christmas recess, and men will be leaving Cambridge for all parts of the country, it will be well to take extra preoaution that no contagious disease be brought back here from other places. There is a possibility of an epidemic of small-pox this winter and it is very important that every...
...recitations and by short examinations during the term. By means of abolishing the final examinations the fall term will, after this year, be continued until December 24, and the winter term will commence in January, which means a material decrease in the length of the Christmas vacation. The Thanksgiving recess of four days is also abolished, and a new regulation as to the time for beginning the college year cuts a week from the summer vacation...
...plans have as yet been made for the 'varsity baseball practice. As usual, no work will begin until after the Christmas recess. Then the batteries will probably have a few minutes of daily practice in the cage at the Carey Building. The rest of the candidates will be started just after the mid-year examinations. Of course, all this work will be in the cage until about April 1, when candidates ought to be ready for outdoor work...
...regular work of the Mott Haven squads will as usual begin immediately after the Christmas recess. Captain Wheelwright is very anxious to have the heavy men come out early in the year and train for the hammer and shot events. Last year Harvard experienced the humiliation of sending a team to New York with no one to contest in the hammer throwing and with but one man to put the shot. This would not have been so if some of the large men who started to train about two weeks before the games had come out sooner...