WHAT D'YOU SUNDAY. . . .

A writer in the Saturday Review of Literature has commented on the weekend exodus from colleges with less satire and more acumen than was displayed in a recent article on the same subject in the Harkness Hoot. Various expedients have been suggested recently to relieve the tedium of the average academic Sabbath, but the one factor that is most in tune with the scholastic scheme of things has escaped observation.

This factor suggested in the Saturday Review article, has to do with the almost total suspension of intellectual stimulus and activity which sets in after classes on Saturday and lasts until Monday morning. Curiously enough, the Victorian era is cited as the time when this Sunday dullness was best relieved. And the credit is layed directly at the feet of the Victorian dons. Through their personalities and approachableness these scholars and teachers made themselves active influences in the lives and thoughts of their students. They did not, at the first spare moment, indulge in orgies of myopic research, or voluminous editing. Their contact with their students was close, and beneficial.

While speculation is rife as to the ultimate efficacy of the new housing facilities at Harvard and Yale, their purpose could have a partial realization if similar relationships between teachers and students are fostered. The day may again return when academic Sundays approach the ideal established by their mauve decade counterparts.