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...calendar, as in so many aspects of day-to-day life, Harvard has clung to what administrators call a traditional path, with a fall semester starting late and exams after Christmas break, and a spring exam schedule that this year threatens to run into June...
Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Yale are among the Ivies that have changed to the new system. Other colleges, such as Dartmouth and Stanford, have instituted unusual trimester or quarters systems very different from the traditional calendar...
Administrators at colleges that have switched their calendar often sav that students and faculty have expressed satisfaction with the move. Others, however, say the new system has engendered mixed feelings among students who have felt more stress in the condensed academic year...
...students had been pushing for a new calendar for a very long time, almost 10 years," she says. "The university created several committees to study and discuss the issue, and finally it was agreed upon...
...religious ceremonies that require fasting or giving up sex for several months. July 4th will be the holiest day of the year, followed closely by St. Patrick's Day and Christmas. Any other holiday that provides a day off from work will be worked into the Church's religious calendar. As I said, it will be very easy to be very religious in the Church of Religious Consciousness...