Word: recession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While most of the students go away from Cambridge for a vacation during the holidays, three of the undergraduate organizations continue their activity with hardly a recess. Members of the hockey squad, by resuming practice on December 30, will gain a valuable four days work in the important development of a unified machine...
...Monday, January 4, immediately after the Christmas recess, regular track work will begin for both the University and Freshman squads. Practice will be held every afternoon for the runners on the board track on Soldiers Field, under the direction of Coach Donovan and the field event men under Coach powers will work in the Baseball Cage. Weekly competitions in the high jump, broad jump, shot-put, and pole-vault will be held as usual, the men who have the highest averages in each of these events being awarded prizes at the end of the season. Opportunity to enter several indoor...
Christmas receptions and entertainments cannot entirely compensate for the inability to spend the holidays at home. The good will which prompts them, however, and do much towards giving those who must remain in Cambridge over the recess a breath of the Christmas spirit. No less than four entertainments have been arranged for such students. On Christmas Eve President and Mrs. Lowell will receive members of the University at their home; on Christmas night, Phillips Brooks House will keep open house; on December 28, the Harvard Club of Boston will hold a smoker for undergraduates at the club house...
President and Mrs. Lowell cordially invite all students of the University who, remain in or near Cambridge during the recess to come to their home, 17 Quincy street, on Christmas Eve, from 8 to 10 o'clock...
Phillips Brooks House extends a cordial invitation to all men who will be in Cambridge during the Christmas recess to come to an informal Christmas evening around the open fire. The doors will open at 5.30 o'clock on Friday, and members of the University will be welcome from then on throughout the evening. There will be an attractive program of readings and music, which will be followed later by refreshments. A student orchestra will play between a number of recitations, impersonations, songs, and humorous selections. The Parlor will be decorated for the occasion, and will contain a large Christmas...