Word: winter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This year the autumn term was about 12 weeks long, the winter term will be about 15 weeks and the spring term less than 8, including the examination period. Such a division of the year's work seems extraordinarily unequal; and, if nothing else, manifestly unfair to those students who, having friends or relatives in other colleges or schools which as usual have the Easter recess at the beginning of April, naturally expected to be able to see them during the vacation...
There appears this morning in another column a communication on the change of the spring recess. The writer is evidently in earnest, but his position seems to us a mistaken one. He argues that there is a great inequality in the length of the autumn, winter and spring terms, and implies that the vacation he proposes would remedy this alleged evil. According to his division of the year's work, the autumn term contains about twelve weeks, the winter term fifteen weeks, and the spring term less than eight weeks. It takes but little calculation to determine that the vacation...
...annual winter meeting of the Yale Athletic Association in conjunction with the Connecticut National Guard, will be held at the 2nd Regiment Armory, New Haven, Conn., on Saturday evening, March 7, at 8 o'clock...
Notice is given in another column of the annual exhibition of photographs to be held next week by the Camera Club. The Camera Club has not seemed so active this winter as in former years, and we hope that this does not signify a falling off in interest among its members. The club in the past has held a high reputation for excellence in the quality of its work, and there has been a distinct growth each year in interest, with a corresponding rise in the standard. Each exhibition has been better than the one of the year before...
...occasion to call attention to the need of such a series of talks, and we are pleased to see that it is now to be given. As we said then, there are few students who thoroughly appreciate the need of system in gymnastic training. In these winter months when out-door exercise is difficult to obtain, men naturally depend upon the Gymnasium for the exercise that is necessary to keep in good bodily health. Many students wonder that they do not grow stronger after weeks of hard work in the gymnasium. Some find that instead of making them stronger...