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...hundred years ago this past winter, Harvard undergraduates returned from Christmas break without having taken exams; in late January, they crammed into classrooms to sit for finals in Greek and Classical Philosophy. And still today, students at the College have had the advantage of a calendar that provides a longer reading period and later start date than most other schools...
...surely it does, if professors assign 25-page term papers for the third of January. But students are capable of putting their work on their minds’ back burners—they do everyday, maintaining extensive extracurricular and academic lives. To ease students’ minds during winter break does not require moving exams, only that professors restrict the work due after winter break to final papers and exams and assign due dates for the middle or end of reading period...
This regrettable opinion does nothing more than maintain an anachronistic calendar. Even on a pragmatic level, keeping Fall Term’s exams after winter break will continue to ruin “vacations” of students with any conscientiousness about their studies. Unless we want to doom the legions of Harvard students to more years of having “time at home” meaning “time in front of the home computer” writing papers. And ending so late compared to other schools only serves to complicate our efforts to negiotiate...
First, a confession. Last winter, during the interminable debates at the United Nations before the invasion of Iraq, I thought--and wrote--that if the U.S. and Britain went to war against Saddam Hussein, France would join them. That was a triumph of cynicism over judgment--a cynicism shared, though this is no excuse, by top officials in the U.S. State Department--and it was, obviously, dead wrong. France stayed out of the war. For a few months this seemed like a catastrophic error on France's part, as Saddam was toppled and the Bush Administration puffed out its chest...
According to Fox, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been discussing moving exams to before winter break on and off for the past twenty years...