Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pazar 3rd Sunday...
...early Jumartesi, only to find that London, Paris and New York are in no mood to answer his cables because they are knocking off for Saturday afternoon. The next day, Pazar, third day of the Turkish week, is simply hopeless for the poor official, because throughout Christendom it is Sunday...
...which, if taken up and passed, would make the first day of the Turkish week fall on what is now the third, the second on the fourth, the third on the fifth, and so on. This would make Juma, the day of rest and worship, fall on the Christian Sunday, yet preserve the traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan is open to only one objection: possibly Allah will not like to be worshipped on Jehovah's day. Until popular feeling on this Godly point can be gauged, Mephisto Kemal...
...extended from December 10 to the night of December 15, following the consent of the Masters allowing the extension. Applications for Lowell and Dunster Houses may be filed at A University Hall until 1 o'clock, Saturday, December 14, and between 1 o'clock Saturday, and 10 o'clock Sunday evening, December 15, with Mason Hammond '25, Senior Tutor of Lowell House at George Smith A-21, and with E. S. Mason, Senior Tutor of Dunster House at 7 Stoughton Hall...
...plan adopted this year by the Fogg Reading Room should be perfectly workable in Widener. A system under which the Museum Library was closed Sunday, and books could be obtained only for the Saturday-to-Monday period, has been replaced; at present the Reading Room is open Sunday; and, more important, books must be returned at that time on-week-ends preceding examinations. There is no reason why the extension of this requirement to Widener should work a hardship on any students; certainly it would be of benefit to most...