Word: vac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, a superior system is in existence. There is a long Vacation Term. This nebulous assembly does not count as full term, there are no proctors, no bursarial charges, few lectures and few official sports. Officially an opportunity for extra study and vacation work amidst suitable surroundings, this Long Vac Term is a godsend to the man who has no plans for the summer but does not wish to stay at home. Of six thousand undergraduates some thousand are usually in residence for the Long Vac Term. A few of them work, having failed exams in June which they...
Starting the week after Henley, the Long Vac Term goes on for roughly six weeks. But one may stay for two, three or four as one likes, and it is common to hear an undergraduate say: "I'm fed up with this place. Tomorrow I'm off to Salzburg." Off he goes, with the blessings of his tutor and supervisor...
Cambridge is hot and empty at present. The Long Vac Term is over, and the Michaclmas term does not begin until October. But somewhere throughout England or the Empire are scattered fifteen hundred young men who look forward to October with hope, trepidation or determination, when they will form the 1935 Freshmen...
...university life. And the concentration of his program makes much of his vacation reading repetition--a new attack on an old favorite, with many suggestions and problems of formal study to mull over and clarify in a fresh stream of impressions. The principal works are usually begun in the vac, then given considerable attention in a series of essays, then browsed over at odd times. Some months later they will again form the staple of vacation review preliminary to the final grind