Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen days will be granted for the next Cristmas vacation, it was recently, voted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Beginning on December 21, the recess will last through January...
This vacation changes for one year a long-standing college rule that all Christmas recesses commence on December 23 and last though January 2 regardless of the day of the week on which these dates might fall. A permanent change of the dates for the recess has not been made. In the future each vacation will be judged separately, and the rule, will be altered only if the circumstances are such that its application would deprive students of several days of vacation for the sake of only one or two classes...
...announcement has been made as to whether the lengthened recess will cause a corresponding shortening of any other vacation. According to the data of the provisional pamphlet of the courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, no change of dates other than the ones above mentioned has been determined...
...CRIMSON pointed out earlier in the year, the traditional schedule which terminates the winter recess on January second, filling Pullman cars with undergraduates still in the throes of post New Years Eve nausea, has not been warranted by circumstances involved in the policy of having a reading period. When the second falls in the latter part of a week, and no one has been able to prevent it from so doing with annoying frequency, students are deprived of an entire weekend to attend often only, one or two classes. It is an extraordinary class that can single handed compensate...
Canada to Recess. Looking out at the Dominions, The Commercial sees A SHADOW OVER CANADA: Two Crop Failures In Succession, adds: "It is now evident that the trade of the Dominion has received a severe setback [crop failure . . . falling off in production . . . decline in earnings of industry . . . collapse of the stock market], and in place of the lulls which have occurred from time to time in the past six years there will be a definite recession...