More or less discussion took place yesterday as to whom the petition to lengthen the Christmas recess ought to be sent. A rumor had it that the Faculty had no power to act in the matter but that in order to be effective the petition should be sent to some other higher body. If the petition which so many have signed expressed a wish that the University statute be changed then it would have to be presented to the President and Fellows, who constitute the legislative board; but not even their approval would be final for nothing so important as an act of legislation can go into effect until the Board of Overseers has passed upon it. It is clear that the petition would stand a good chance of being thrown aside before it had passed all these hands, but happily, we do not find that it is necesary to go through so tedious a process. The petition does not ask for an amendment to the statute, which so strictly defines the length of the recess, but merely begs that the day of registration be changed to January 5th. It ought not to read this way, exactly,- it should ask that in this case, registration be omitted entirely. If it is put this way, since the whole system of registration is a fabricatian of the Faculty it will be within the province of the Faculty to act upon it. This scheme is well worth striving to put through, particularly in the case of the great number of men who live at long distances from Cambridge.

The President and Fellows will meet on Monday, the Faculty will meet on Tuesday, so that the method which is to be taken must be chosen right away.

Harvard owes the author of "Harvard's Better Self" in the New England Magazine a debt of gratitude for his effort, as one well acquainted with what he speaks of, to make public the true spirit which exists here in regard to religious matters. The mass of nonsense and falsehoods which has been turned out for a public willing to believe anything without discount, has caused many a true Harvard man to feel the slander keenly. The truth of the matter has never been so eagerly sought for as has the other side. It was not for our Professors to proclaim the injustice of all these untruths in any other than a general way, but it is very fitting and proper that this worthy unofficial article should appear.