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...appears that the Undergraduate Council might be able to improve the situation. The council has endorsed a revised calendar plan which would schedule fall semester exams before winter break, with a longer intersession and significant Reading Periods. The student affairs committee is now negotiating with the Committee on Undergraduate Education to establish a proposal to submit to the Faculty Council this spring...
...council's calendar requires foregoing only a couple of one-day holidays and starting classes in early September. That's certainly not too much to pay for a real winter break...
Also, the current two-semester system, which inevitably requires mid-year exams, is relatively new. As late as the nineteenth century, the Harvard calendar included three terms. Of course, this was a time when the specific courses were mandatory and included such tantalizing subjects as Livy, Horace and English Grammar...
...have no life anymore. I go from day to day, but nothing means anything. I don't want a wife and children. I don't want to think. I don't want ..." His hand sweeps the room; the chaotic debris indicates that he connects to very little. A wall calendar is still open to October 1992 -- the month the apartment's original inhabitants fled. Their delicate demitasse cups lie shattered under a carelessly tossed antitank missile...
...horrible calendar will often mean meetingon a Saturday, or on a couple of occasions,Sunday," he says. "I see students on as ad hocbasis who are not happy for one or another reason.Often I have to schedule these on a Saturdaymorning or 'just for lunch...