snow days and the "exempt"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 21 22:38:59 UTC 2014


On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> I was never exempt or non-exempt, but when I was a student at Harvard
> we were told classes were never cancelled because of inclement weather.
>
> And that was also true for the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving
> -- the professor of one class I was taking told us that Saturday was
> a normal class day (it was a Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday class), but
> that probably no one would be there.
>

Sounds right to me. I was merely a sometime "exchange-student" from MIT,
back in the day. So, I didn't have the motivation of a true Harvardian to
avoid being one of the "five percent who never get the word."

-- 
-Wilson
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