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While the fire doors were checked at the beginning of the year and over winter break, the level of security will now be stepped up, according to Gehrke...
...didn’t want to underestimate them—we wanted to stick to above 36 [strokes per minute],” two-seat Winter Mead said. “Within 20 strokes, we had about four seats on them, and we kept pushing and finished with a pretty solid...
...implementation of a University-wide calendar would require FAS, the Divinity School, the Graduate School of Design, and the Graduate School of Education—all of which currently hold exams after winter break—to make the most drastic changes to their calendars. —Brenda C. Maldonado contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Madeline W. Lissner can be reached at mlissner@fas.harvard.edu...
Under the committee's recommended framework, endorsed by 18 of its 19 members, each of the University's Faculties would start the first term early in September, usually immediately after Labor Day, and end the term (including exams) in December, before the winter break. The academic year (including Commencement) would conclude by the end of May. Vacations such as Thanksgiving and spring break would be coordinated. Within these basic guidelines, the timing and structure of activities such as course registration and reading and exam periods would continue to be determined by the individual Schools. In addition, Schools would have discretion...
...Harvard Schools other than their own, as well as at MIT. It would also facilitate more teaching across Faculty lines, an objective recently endorsed by the University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering and the FAS Task Force on General Education. Students would finish fall term exams before winter vacation, allowing for a longer and less stressful break -- an advantage recently emphasized by the Undergraduate Council and reinforced in a letter to me by the Director of the University Health Services. In addition, students would finish the academic year earlier in the spring, helping them compete more effectively for summer...