Word: recession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rules which govern the Christmas recess this year are very clear; but they need emphasis. Everyone must understand that the vacation will have a clean-cut beginning and end. It will begin when a man's last class on the twentieth is over and he has registered, and will end when his first class on the fifth begins. There will be no added allowance for travel. Nothing could be clearer than this, and yet there probably will be a hundred men with courage to ask for more time. Men who intend to make this demand should remember that the College...
...vote of the Corporation upon recommendation of the Faculty the Christmas recess this year will extend from Sunday, December 21st to January 4th inclusive. Every student is required to register after his last engagement preceding the recess and on Monday, January 5th, as usual and to attend all of his engagements that day. This change will give students two full weeks leave, including three Sundays away from college...
...first editorial article in the Advocate of October 24 pleads for two weeks recess at Christmas; the second expounds the value of keeping certain hours sacred to study. Both are good-humored. Both are persuasive also; though the first suggests belief in the vulgar error that work is evil, and the second treats as a discovery what every sensible schoolboy knows. "The better plan is to have times appointed for study as for other pursuits," is more nearly worth saying in Harvard College than it ought to be. "Time passed with a book is not always passed in grasping ideas...
...glanced over the College calendar for 1913-14, we came upon this: Recess from December twenty-third to January second, inclusive. Then curiosity got the better of us, we looked up the dates, and found the first to be a Tuesday and the second a Friday; in other words, the last day at College before the recess will be a Monday and the first day back after it a Saturday. Though we realize perfectly that College vacations must be made by rule, still we feel that the rule should not be so iron-bound as to permit the obvious mistake...
...Christmas vacation, been aware of the facts here mentioned, the CRIMSON is morally certain that they would not have given us this cause for complaint, but would have taken the same view which we have expressed. We are not making the old, general appeal for a longer Christmas recess, but are calling attention to a special case which could well be treated in a special way. Nor would it be contrary to precedent if the case were so treated, for, when a similar situation occurred in 1902-03, the CRIMSON called it to the attention of the Corporation which immediately...