Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group will initially consider two schedules. One would cut three days from the spring reading period and add them between the fall and spring terms. The other would begin the academic year a week earlier, add three days between terms, and lengthen Thanksgiving recess to a long weekend...
Chambers's committee will submit within two weeks a recommendation for lengthening either the recess between semesters or the Thanksgiving vacation, or both...
Since there appears to be a general feeling of dissatisfaction with the current one-day recess, as reflected in yesterday's CRIMSON editorial, the Council will consider alternative proposals for a calender revision," Abramson said...
Student in this university are dismissed for summer recess from one to three weeks later than their fellow job competitors from other colleges in the New England area. Students residing in other parts of the country must in addition sacrifice several extra days of job hunting in traveling home. By the time they arrive, the lads from Polkadello State Teachers who got out in May are holding down all the jobs...
Many relatively high paying jobs in construction and factories are given on a first come, first serve basis. Students looking for jobs after the first of June have a hard time getting served. If the summer recess began in the middle of May, the Harvard unemployed would not be handicapped in the race for the better paying summer jobs. School could then begin earlier in September. Since many summer jobs end after Labor Day, and since many college students quit their jobs for tax reasons before the summer is over, this arrangement would be more advantageous to most students. Also...