MORE WESTERN STUDENTS.

During the past, the CRIMSON has printed editorials on the question of time allowances granted at the Christmas vacation to students who live at a distance. From the amount of comment, the system in vogue is at present provoking, and another editorial on the same subject is apparently timely. Students who live in the West are permitted to leave early enough to arrive at their homes at the opening of vacation. However, they are required to register after the recess at the regular time. For many this necessitates leaving home on New Year's Day, and for not a few, on December 31.

Harvard is undeniably superior to any Western educational institution. The opportunities here are so many and varied that Western men who come here make a very wise choice. On the other hand, the University needs the breadth and the national character which only students from all over the country can give it. Undoubtedly the number of men from the West that come to Harvard is increasing.

The CRIMSON believes that granting Western men a full vacation at Christmas time would remove a constant source of irritation and a strong grievance which Western men at college now feel. This would indirectly, but none the less surely, tend to still further increase the number of Western students. This reason in itself should convince the Faculty of the wisdom of granting students whose homes are at a distance, a vacation as long as Easterners.