Word: suspending
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale will suspend all classes, it was announced Saturday, from February 2 to February 7 to aid fuel conservation. The university, however, will not be officially closed...
Columbia University will close its buildings and suspend all exercises on Mondays from January 21 until March 25. This action is taken to co-operate with the orders of the Fuel Administration. At a conference of administrative officers of the university, it was decided that Columbia was not under compulsion to close, as it was not specifically included under the restrictions of the coal order. The decision was reached, however, that every effort should be made to assist the Government. Rearrangements of courses are now being made with the probability that classes will be changed from Monday to Saturday afternoon...
...holidays thrust upon it. In such an event we expect a long weekend, fewer classes, and a confused schedule. The inconvenience created would certainly be considerable, yet necessity may be greater. Harmful as such action is, however, it seems the lesser of two evils. If we are forced to suspend work temporarily, we do so that more disastrous restrictions can be avoided...
...ARROR, MICH., April 4.--The Michigan Athletic Board decided tonight to suspend all intercollegiate athletic contests for the remainder of the college year. Baseball, track and tennis will be the sports affected, but the coaches will remain to direct all interclass athletics. Military drill for 1,200 students was held tonight...
From a purely commercial point of view, according to the Athletic Association officials, there will be no difficulty in connection with the cancellation of the schedules. Such action would necessitate calling off games with some colleges who will not suspend athletics, but no institution would so cling to their contract as to demand a payment of the guarantee under circumstances like the present. Financially, the year's receipts would be much larger than the expenditures, for the expenses of crew and the various Southern trips would be done away with, and the largest receipt item, the returns from football...