retreat

[Gust Olson]

And not only retreats: the Library School where my wife teaches has annual
"advances"--not that the renaming makes them any more successful (so she
says).

Gust Olson
Canadian Slavonic Papers

>Indeed.  And I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned what
>must be generally known: that this term is used in business and
>academia as well, most commonly, I suppose, in the phrase "planning
>retreat."   We are planning a "retreat" for our students of Russian
>in which they will be with native speakers and will speak only
>Russian for a day or two.  (At least we hope we can arrange to do
>this.)  And my academic department has done this many times.
>
>Cheers,
>Ken Brostrom

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