Word: recession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sailor in Java to the gossip of ladies at afternoon bridge. The authors who have contributed these sketches write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness of style mark each story in turn. I cannot think any of the work, however, able as it is, distinguished by an authentic and native gift...
Immediately following the spring recess, on Wednesday, April 29, the fifteenth annual group of divisional examinations will begin, to continue until May 21. The addition this year of Ancient and Modern Languages to the group of examinations marks the continued growth of the system...
...today the University tennis team will leave on its Southern trip, to be gone for the entire recess. Captain W. W. Ingraham '25 will be unable to make the trip because of the pressure of divisional examinations, but will play at Providence and Columbia. The team, in the order in which its members play, follows: Alden Briggs '25, J. F. Whitbeck '27, Parke Cummings '25, G. H. Perkins '26, P. M. Lenhart '27, and L. H. Gordon...
With the Northampton performance begins a trip which will last through the whole recess. The tour will close with three Boston performances, April 28, 29, and 30 in the Fine Arts Theatre...
...four sets of examinations which will be held for passing off requirements in modern languages are to take place on the Saturday preceding the opening of college, again just after the Christmas recess, in the first part of May, and on the Saturday in June after the admission examinations and preceding Commencement. Formerly the examinations for removing the modern language requirements were held the week after the opening of college, after the Christmas vacation, and in the middle...