THANKSGIVING

Another Thanksgiving having become part of an undigested past, everybody settles down to wait for Christmas vacation. The significance of the day has unfortunately been rather widely dissipated in gourmandizing and various other pleasant pursuits. Turkey has assumed the role of the main feature of the day with numerous other foods coming close behind.

In college Thanksgiving seems to mean little more than a chance to make up work or sleep. It is the last break before Christmas vacation and the reading period, a sort of preliminary breathing time. Every one is thankful for the relief it offers as a vacation, but thought on the matter goes little farther. But even if the feeling on these festivities is purely negative, there is no actual foundation for the pessimistic belief that Thanksgiving is becoming obscured by modern life. It is not a matter of more or less, but difference in expression.