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...landscape and a tiny flower shoot make him the ultimate Ruskinian. Aside from “Peacock Feather,” his small landscapes—“Venetian Doorway” (1877), “San Barnaba, Venice” (c. 1876-77), and “Winter Landscape, Valley of the Catskill” (1866)—are not to be missed. Each painting alone can be examined for hours, and with approximately 60 works, “The Last Ruskinians” is an exhibition that is truly worth a whole afternoon...
...family and friends. Unfortunately, as Harvard’s mental health professionals have agreed, the current calendar renders our academic breaks brief and harried with the stress of looming finals and papers and an unreasonably short length (two or more weeks shorter than most schools). Furthermore, our strangely short winter break and awkwardly situated intersession typically mean that it is too difficult, brief, and expensive for many students from distant states and, ever increasingly distant countries, to fly home. Even those who return do not have enough time for both friends and family during winter break, and our calendar?...
...this change in the past—most notably an ongoing curricular review which is finally coming to a conclusion—are being lifted. There is no longer any reason for delay. Harvard is one of a few universities that drag students back to campus after a brief winter break to write term papers and take exams. It’s a cruel system that denies Harvard students a full or relaxing winter break and makes Cantabs the butt of many jokes from their friends who are returning home for real winter breaks. Fortunately, the calendar is a problem...
...organization surveyed graduate students in the winter of 2004 and then met with the GSAS administration to discuss its concerns, according to the group’s founder, Christine D. Wenc...
Besides extending winter break by combining it with intersession, the UC plans would reduce reading period by one day and final examination period by two days...