The reason why the petition for the omission of registration after the Christmas recess was not granted was that the statute fixing the length of the recess is established by the President and Fellows with the sanction of the Overseers, and the scheme of registration is merely a Faculty regulation to carry out the provisions of this statute; the Faculty therefore felt that they had no right to grant a petition which would make the statute of the higher body inoperative. It seemed, moreover, as we have been told, that Harvard being a University, it would be a slur on the earnest spirit of the students if extra days were added to a recess merely because there are very few recitations to attend to. This latter argument seems somewhat weak. Saturday afternoon has always been considered the proper time for recreation, surely no one can be expected to work on Sunday, so that men are called upon to give up two whole days at home in order to do regular work on Saturday morning.