Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It is always nice to spend vacation with friends from other campuses in order to get a fresh perspective on being at college. There is a certain charm in discussing school with people who have never heard of Phillips Brooks House or the house system, and being able to talk...
Of course, in order to have classes in January, there would have to be professors to teach them. Asking them to work during their traditional vacation time seems on the surface to be a recipe for inevitable failure. However, if the courses took the place of others that they would...
Sure, I would not have enjoyed employed taking exams the last week before vacation terribly much, but I would trade the looming month of January for earlier exams and the prospect of another month of "Justice any day.
Rather than spend considerable amounts of time and money to return to their home countries for the vacation, each year many foreign students elect to stay in their dorm rooms or to visit friends in the United States.
"It's lonely," says Manjari S. Mahajan '98, a native of India who spent the vacation in her Winthrop House room. "Everyone comes back from vacation and says, 'I was with my family and you weren't.' Ideally, you would like to be home, but I managed fine without it...