Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tradition and custom over a long period of years have seemingly decreed that the Harvard College Christmas Holidays shall extend from December 23 to January 2 inclusive. But the fallibility of tradition has been brought to light in a striking fashion this year when the second of January falls on a Thursday, making it compulsory to attend classes on the Friday and Saturday directly after the holidays. To some this is perfectly reasonable, as enough classes meet in those days to make the return to Cambridge worth-while. But to those who are reading in all courses save...
...hard and fast vacation rule works especially harshly on those who live at a considerable distance from Cambridge. Inasmuch as traveling time is allowed only at the beginning of holidays, the necessity of returning from a distance to attend one class is doubly irksome. A notoriously unfortunate case this year is of one man who must return three days early from California in order to attend one Friday class...
...care of cases such as that of the foregoing illustration, or the college should grant the extra day or two as an extended vacation period to men who have only one or two classes before the week-end. It will be hardly reasonable to expect men to return next year for Saturday classes when January 2 falls on a Friday. The benefit of the single class cannot offset the benefit of two extra day's holiday...
...struggle tonight, coming second on the Crimson schedule, will be one of the hardest Harvard will have all year. The University Club, always dangerous, is doubly strong this year by virtue of its acquisition of several former Harvard stickmen. In the starting lineup for the Clubmen will be four former Crimson men who in their day were stars on the ice. J. P. Chase '28 will be at center, with H. W. Bigelow '29 and E. C. Clark '27 teaming up at defense and H. H. Newell '29 at goal. Chandler Hilliard, former Arlington High star and Paul Curtis...
This colection, which is coming here through the instrumentality of Langdon Warner '03 and Mr. Yanagi, a Japanese professor from Tokio who is at Harvard this year, is to pass around the country, going to Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Chicago museums after its showing here...