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Said Dirksen: "We could send to Joe McCarthy a note, this afternoon, in which we could say to him, 'Joe, we are going to have the Senate take a recess from day to day; we are going to be here to catch you the minute the revolving door of that hospital lets you out into the world.' That would be a healing sentiment, would it not, Mr. President...
...President? How bad must be the evil acids eating at the soul if finally they stir in such a way our passions and our tempers . . . Mr. President, there is fever and there is pain. The least we could do in an effort to be charitable would be to recess the Senate, in consonance with the suggestions made by eminent medical authority. When Senator McCarthy is ready, he will be back here to defend himself, with his chin...
Undergraduates at Yale University have just celebrated their last four-day Thanksgiving vacation. A recently announced schedule revision will reduce this holiday to a one-day recess next fall, and will also bring these major changes in the academic year at New Haven...
...chief reason for extending the Easter recess, Yale authorities explained, is the low student morale during the spring term. It is hoped that the longer vacation will break up the term more effectively and reduce the high number of students who usually enter the infirmary during the winter months...
Students are not very disturbed about the shortening of the Thanksgiving recess, Said reported. "Most of them will go home for the four days, anyway," he said...