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...exams, which usually start about the twentieth, also present a tedious blockade to Easter with the family. If the spring recess were only a month before finals, (Easter will be on April 25 in 2038 A.D.), students would have a scant three weeks of cramming before the exam period. Yet incredulous as it is, some students have done admirably with only two weeks before January exams...
John M. Gregg '52, who drew up the Council-approved charter, said last night he hoped for official University sanction before Easter recess. Already, according to Gregg, a number of faculty members have offered themselves as sponsors. These include William Y. Elliott, Williams Professor of Government, Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, McGeorge Bundy and Robert McCloskey, associate professors of Government, and William Moffitt, assistant professor of Physics. Both Eliot and Moffitt attended Oxford, Eliott as a Rhodes Scholar...
House interviews will be held for the remainder of March and during the first week after spring vacation. All applications are due by April 9, but Dean Watson has asked return before recess...
Students emerging from the recent exam period with grades well into the alphabet may find consolation for their grief in the brevity of the fall term reading period. Upon returning from the Christmas recess they found themselves saddled with heavy reading assignments, and nine days later, when exams began, even the most studious saw that they had given many of their courses a cursory treatment. But the short January reading period is not to be a scourge unique to students presently enrolled in the college. In the Registrar's recent bit of long range scheduling, the Ten Year Calendar...
Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are eligible for the competition, which will probably run for eight weeks, including the usual one-week breather for spring recess. Instruction is offered in news, editorial, and feature writing, and in ad selling, and in photo and engraving work...