Sorry, Marvin, cannot research all the colleges’ academic Calendars. But many of them close over the holidays. Maybe if your avatar had eyes it could look for them 
(that avatar is a bit creepy).
My college closed and I’d often bring people home who had nowhere else to go. But that’s even further ancient history than the 1990s! A quick google search pulls up many schools (in fact many state Us) with dorms and/or dining halls etc closed for the holiday.