Word: recession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas recess, as prescribed in the college statutes, lasts from December 23 to January 2, inclusive, giving about eleven and a half days of vacation. In contrast with this meagre portion, Yale's recess lasted this year from Friday, December 17 at 1 P. M. to Tuesday, January 4 at 7.50 A. M:--a total of sixteen and a half days; while at Princeton, the vacation is also nearly half again as long as ours. The privilege which men who live in the west are given of signing off a day or so early, is slim compensation, for all lectures...
...University has been fortunate enough this year to arrange for five games at home, three of these being league games. The team makes two short trips away, one of about four days during the April recess, and the other to New Haven to play Yale...
...proposed conference, plans for which were formulated at a meeting between delegates of Cornell, Princeton. Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and M. I. T. in New York during the Christmas Recess, will offer an opportunity hitherto impossible for discussion and comparison of methods of student government and organization. Four delegates will be the limit that any one of the 41 colleges invited will be permitted to send, as facilities for accommodating more are not at hand at Technology. The preliminary work in regard to sending out questionnaires, determining the exact fields of discussion, and arranging for the program and accommodations has been...
...year 1921-22, at which all members of the University are eligible to vote will be held today, and the polls will be open at the Phillips Brooks House from 9 to 5. The new officers, with the exception of the treasurer, will assume office after the April recess. The treasurer will take up his duties on June 1, the beginning of the new fiscal year...
...extensive programme of concerts and dances for the next three months is being planned for by the management of the University band, including visits to towns in the neighborhood. Most of the concerts will be followed by dances. During the spring recess, the band will make a several days' tour, holding concerts in Worcester, Springfield, Albany, New York City, and possibly in New Haven. Practice is held every week for the sixty or more band members, but more men playing stringed instruments are still needed...