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...petition to the faculty requesting the extension of the Thanksgiving recess from Wednesday to the following Monday was signed by 664 students. The faculty, however, instead of making the recess longer than usual, have shortened it to one day. Their meaning probably is that, while the students complained because the journey to and from home consumed in most cases the whole time granted, it ought not to be a great hardship to spend the day in Cambridge. [Harvard Correspondent of N. Y. Post...
Last Friday evening Professor Griffin gave a reception to the faculty and to those of the senior class who remained in town during the recess, and a very pleasant evening was passed...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: In one of the Greek courses on Saturday Prof. White remarked, in explaining to the section the reasons that actuated the faculty in refusing the petition of the students in regard to the Thanksgiving recess, that he very much regretted that there was no way by which the faculty could acquaint the students with the reasons for their actions. He said that if the students could always get the authoritative announcements of the causes of the various actions of the ruling boards, he did not doubt that much better feeling would result between the students...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Now that all the doubt and uncertainty surrounding the Thanksgiving recess has been cleared up, I think it is time to give the college some expression of the views of a large body of students who did not approve of the measures made use of by two of the papers to obtain a longer recess. I was just as anxious for the two extra days as any one in college, but I do not think that the way to gain such a concession is by ambiguous editorials inciting students to take an unfair advantage...
...probable that the usual holiday recess will be taken by Congress, though a large number of Congressmen advocate working right through to the 4th of March...