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...from the monotony of the fall term. These islands of sanity amid a sea of midterm exams allow students to catch up on a problem set or a paper, or just catch their breath. The new calendar would bring no vacation until Thanksgiving, which would remain a two-day recess. Yale and Penn at least have either a week off for Thanksgiving or two days of fall break in October...
...Clinton and the First Lady will go back into campaign mode this week, visiting nine cities between them in just five days in a blitz of speeches, staged events and electronic town-hall meetings. The Clintons won't be alone. By the time Congress returns from its two-week recess next Monday, about 35 Cabinet members and other Administration officials will have taken part in 70 health-care events across the country. The goal behind this burst of activity: to hammer home five simple points about the President's health-care plan in language many Americans have not heard before...
...news conference -- only the second one he has held in prime time. Though the session had been planned for two weeks, it was finally scheduled rather quickly. The main reason was to try to counteract a sharp plunge in the polls and do so just before Congress's Easter recess, so that lawmakers would discover pro-Clinton sentiment on the rise back home...
...years, Harvard students have complained about the College tradition of holding fall semester exams after winter recess. The winter vacation rings hollow as students frantically attempt to study for January exams, while also completing papers and problem sets assigned for the January reading period. After this ordeal, students must rejuvenate themselves during the few measly days of intersession...
Founded in the tradition of the best English colleges, Harvard originally "kept" throughout the year. But by 1749, Harvard decided to establish a winter recess in order to allow poorer students time to earn money for their tuition. This vacation lasted five weeks and began the first Wednesday of January...