ONE-DAY HOLIDAYS

In the calendar for the current college year, there are listed six regular one-day holidays, divided evenly between the two terms. That they should be altogether done away with is foolish; but if some arrangement could be made whereby a corresponding number of days be added to the longer vacations, certainly almost all concerned would benefit.

Thanksgiving alone should be retained; indeed, if two single holidays at other times could be given up to free that entire weekend, the longer break would be appreciated by a great proportion of the undergraduate body. But the rent of the single holidays, could their equivalent be added to the Christmas recoss, would assume great value, particularly for these men living at a distance from Cambridge. With Harvard's usual holiday from the twenty-third of December to the second of January, Western and Southern students frequently find it futile to return home for so short a period. This winter, for instance, the addition of two more days at the beginning would also lengthen the vacation over another weekend.

The actual value of the holidays themselves is open to considerable dispute. Those classes, regularly meeting twice a week, which lose one of those lectures try to make it up when possible, "by the pleasure of the instructor". Students with large laboratory assignments, too, find themselves badly pressed when the number of hours in which work is possible is so appreciably diminished. The results gained from these holidays is only short-lived; prolongation of Christmas vacation, and perhaps Thanksgiving, seems much more desirable.