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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this site Professor Lake will go to the Monastery of St. Catherine to pursue his researches in Biblical manuscripts while Professor Blake returns to the United States by way of Bulgaria and Roumania where he expects to carry on certain negotiations on behalf of the Harvard College Library. Professor Lake will be away until the fall. Professor Blake will return to Cambridge about the first of April...
...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 one, the benefit to be gained from attending a single class on Friday or Saturday can hardly compensate for docking what would otherwise be three days off the vacation period...
...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...
...take 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...
Many members of the University who live too far away to return home for the holidays have enjoyed President Lowell's hospitality in the past. The reception will be held at his home on 17 Quincy Street...