PICNIC VS. DISTINCTION.

Last year the Senior Picnic, conflicted with the examinations for degrees with distinction; according to schedule, the same conflict is due this year. The picnic is an unique affair, going down in class history with the Freshman dinner and the Junior Dance; and the necessity of absence should be forced on no man. Especially it should not be forced on the overworked young men of scholarly aspiration. Their opportunities for sport are rare enough, and treats such as gambolling in pink tights on the islands of Boston Harbor should not be denied them by their more jovial classmates. Now it matters little for the case in hand whether the date of distinction examinations or the date of the Senior Picnic be changed. As death, taxes, and the rules of the College Office are equally inflexible, we should hazard the guess that the Picnic will give way. Unless the arrangement is entirely impossible, in all the interests of size, scholarship, and class, it should do so.