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The Oxford Companion to the Year

By: Bonnie Blackburn; Leofranc Holford-Strevens | Book details

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TERMS
(OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, LAW)
Note . Throughout this section, all dates are inclusive.
UNIVERSITY TERMS
At Oxford and Cambridge, the three periods during which instruction is given are commonly known as 'terms', and the interval between them as 'vacations'. In strict usage, however, 'term' denotes a longer period during which the university is active, the 'term' of everyday speech being correctly Full Term. The dates of the latter are appointed a few years in advance; the dates of term, in the proper sense, are laid down by university enactments.At Oxford, the statutory terms are currently defined as follows:
Michaelmas Term: 1 October to 17 December
Hilary Term: 7 January to 25 March or the Sunday before Palm Sunday, whichever is the earlier
Trinity Term: 20 April or the Wednesday after Easter, whichever is the later, to 6 July
Within each term, eight weeks, running from a Sunday to a Saturday, are appointed as Full Term. In certain subjects there are extended terms, which may begin before, or end after, Statutory Term.At Cambridge, there are two terms of eighty days followed by one of seventy, defined by the civil calendar without regard to the date of Easter:
Michaelmas Term: 1 October to 19 December
Lent Term: 5 January to 25 March (24 March in leap year)
Easter Term: 10 April to 18 June, but if Full Term begins on or after 22 April, term is 17 April to 25 June

Full Term is required to occupy three-quarters of each term, consisting respectively of sixty, sixty, and fifty-three days, beginning on a Tuesday and ending on a Friday.

Although 'term' has nothing to do with 'three', the threefold division of the academic year caused the word to be adopted for the thirds into which, about 1865, the English

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