THE request that the Spring Recess shall be postponed until after Lent is made early enough this year for the authorities to take action upon it. There is no conceivable reason for having it in Lent, except that it may include Fast Day; but the observance of Fast Day is completely obsolete, and interests none of us, whereas Lent is a very real thing in many families. All vacations are certainly intended for enjoyment as well as suspension of studies; therefore, to fix one at a season when a decreased amount of pleasure will be obtained by many others besides churchmen is to neutralize the intention for which it is given. To find fault with giving a vacation after Easter, because Easter is an ecclesiastical institution, and Harvard is an unsectarian college, is almost as absurd as it would be to object to having a vacation at Christmas. Placing a vacation after Easter or at Christmas does not commit the Faculty to the recognition either of Easter or Christmas. These seasons are chosen as times of cheerfulness, when we shall find it pleasantest to be at home with our families.