Word: recessions
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...same policy that was followed at Christmas regarding attendance before and after the recess will be used at the time of the April vacation, which begins on Saturday, March 31, Dean Hanford announced last night...
Harvard news during the Christmas recess was headed by the long awaited report by Dean James Landis of the Law School on the Bridges case on the San Francisco Waterfront...
...advocating the raising of two fingers. There was always considerable suspense among the kids at every change of teachers until that detail was settled. We were never told how many fingers to raise, and the schoolmarm never wrote such instructions on the blackboard in our presence. But after a recess period, or coming to school in the morning we found the instructions written neatly on the blackboard and the teacher very preoccupied with something on her desk...
...recess of the English Parliament lasted six weeks. The day on which the houses met again is one of the most remarkable epochs in our history (October, 1641). From that day dates the corporate existence of the two great parties which have ever since alternately governed the country. In one sense, indeed, the distinction which then became obvious had always existed, and always must exist. For it has its origin in diversities of temper, of understanding, and of interest, which are found in all societies, and which will be found till the human mind ceases to be drawn in opposite...
Making its last appearance before the Christmas recess, the Glee Club will give a concert for the Harvard Women's Club in the Hotel Vendome next Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock...