Word: recessions
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...questionnaire will be distributed shortly after the Thanksgiving recess to find out how many students would take advantage of the 'pass-fail' system, which was proposed by the HPC to Dean Ford last month and will probably be discussed in the Faculty next semester...
...questionnaire will probably be distributed either the Monday or Tuesday following the Thanksgiving recess. Trosper said he hopes for at least a 50 per cent response from undergraduates...
...threatened to have the sergeant at arms arrest recalcitrant Senators and dragoon them onto the floor. After this warning, a quorum finally materialized, and the bill was accepted for debate. However, having reluctantly answered the quorum call, most Senators, Republican and Democratic alike, quickly disappeared again. Since a recess can be demanded whenever 51 members can not be rounded up for a roll call, and since 51 Senators could rarely be rounded up last week, Southerners primed for filibuster were able to save their breath...
...Parliament's last session before the summer recess, and the hands on the House clock were moving close to 10 p.m., the hour for the final vote on Prime Minister Harold Wilson's drastic bill to freeze wages and prices. Wilson knew that he would win. But he also knew that some two dozen left-wing Laborites were certain to abstain in protest against his tactics in steamrollering the bill through Commons...
When the College re-opened in September 1913 the CRIMSON conducted a small debate over the value of business administration courses, which an alumnus had urged Harvard to offer. But in November this was replaced with pleas to President Lowell to lengthen the Christmas recess. And University officials announced that the Class of 1917 was the first Harvard class in which the number of students who prepared at public schools outnumbered those who prepared at private schools...