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...scrambled to get into the play-yard of Holy Cross Parochial School in Brooklyn. Above the clanging of ambulances, the exhortations of police reserves, panicky rumors flew. Not until the ambulances had all come and gone was the story truly known: a swarm of little girls, playing games at recess, had chosen the covering of an ashpit for "base." Under their jumpings up and down, the grating had sagged, torn open, tumbled about 20 little compounds of sugar & spice into a dusty depth. Falling chunks of concrete had injured 15, including legs broken and sprained. Remorseful, the nuns of Holy...
This vacation changes for one year a long-standing college rule that all Christmas recesses commence on December 23 and last though January 2 regardless of the day of the week on which these dates might fall. A permanent change of the dates for the recess has not been made. In the future each vacation will be judged separately, and the rule, will be altered only if the circumstances are such that its application would deprive students of several days of vacation for the sake of only one or two classes...
...announcement has been made as to whether the lengthened recess will cause a corresponding shortening of any other vacation. According to the data of the provisional pamphlet of the courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, no change of dates other than the ones above mentioned has been determined...
...CRIMSON pointed out earlier in the year, the traditional schedule which terminates the winter recess on January second, filling Pullman cars with undergraduates still in the throes of post New Years Eve nausea, has not been warranted by circumstances involved in the policy of having a reading period. When the second falls in the latter part of a week, and no one has been able to prevent it from so doing with annoying frequency, students are deprived of an entire weekend to attend often only, one or two classes. It is an extraordinary class that can single handed compensate...
...administration, in adopting the plan for a more satisfactory vacation, have followed the weekend proposition to its logical and final conclusion in having the recess not only end but begin on a Sunday. While the projected prolongation for next winter's holidays is not as yet a permanent institution, being in the nature of a special dispensation for experimental purposes, there is every reason to believe that the results will justify a continuation of the policy...