Yale Will Eliminate Early Exams, Restore Full Thanksgiving Holiday

Yale will abandon its short-lived calendar experiment next year and return to the traditional mid-January examinations, and four day Thanksgiving weekend.

The Yale calendar committee has decided to discard the plan by which the college opened this year on September 14, Thanksgiving vacation lasted one day, and mid-year exams will begin two days after Christmas vacation.

The longer Thanksgiving vacation may have been the result of faculty and student dissatisfaction with the present abbreviated holiday. However, the principal reason for the entire calendar revision was administrative necessity, according to Reuben A. Holden, Secretary of Yale University and chairman of the calendar committee.

Holden explained that a new schedule of College Board Examinations will mean that the Admissions Committee will not be ready to admit the incoming class until a week later than usual, Holden explained.