Word: recession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the football season the first of the pool and billiard tournaments will be held, followed by a second tournament after the Christmas recess. In addition to these competitions the management is planning tournaments in chess, checkers, and bridge to be held during the winter months...
...meeting of all candidates for the team in the Locker Building. Intensive training started immediately, for the team had only two weeks in which to prepare for the spring trio. Coach Bingham picked 37 men to go south and the squad left at the start of the spring recess...
While a considerable part of the college was getting ready for a week of enjoyment in New York or Pride's Crossing, the Alumni Bulletin seized the opportunity to attack the April Recess so convincingly that we almost found ourselves agreeing with the writer. It must be admitted that the weather was bad, and a lot of men were obliged to stay in Cambridge anyway. A limited scenic tour of Virginia and Georgia is hardly an excuse for an entire week utterly wasted,--save for a few professors who, according to the Bulletin, used the time to visit New York...
...only excuse for a Spring Recess is that it is a tradition handed down from the days when students were too lazy to work steadily for four months; but surely such a consideration will have no effect on Harvard. Tradition which has outgrown its usefulness must be abolished...
Work today will be marked by various class and 150-pound crew races. Since the April recess there has been a rear-rangement in the seating of some of the class eights and this afternoon Coach Brown will test out the new A and B combinations in a race in the Basin...