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They argued against it for reasons ranging from personal difficulties with finding child care in the last weeks of August to worries over squeezing in exams before winter break...
Moving to such a system would mean transplanting fall final exams before the winter break, beginning the school year directly after Labor Day, and leaving January free for the College to offer an extended break or adopt a month-long January term (J-term). This mini-term could be dedicated to classes or other curricular and extracurricular activities...
Verba said his committee had extensively debated its two major options—maintaining the current Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) calendar or moving to one that would better align the calendars of all of Harvard’s schools by moving final exams to before winter break...
Verba said adopting such a calendar would yield several benefits for students. They would be able to go away on winter break without worrying about coming back to final exams, and they could begin their summers earlier as all academic work and exams would end before Memorial...
...advantages of the proposed calendar is that it will encourage students to budget their time, to stay much more on top of their reading during the fall than they do now, to take their exams, and have a real winter break,” Harris said. “The way we do things now...leads students to put off much of their work [and] cram before exams, which we know leads to lower retention rates...