With the change of holidays which the State has made, a corresponding change in the spring recess here is worth considering. The recess has always been so dated as to include Fast Day; if it should be changed so as to include Patriots' Day, it would fall about two weeks later, and this would give some likelihood of a coincidence with pleasant weather. There is hardly a week in the year which is more likely to be stormy than the first in April, and gentlemen long connected with the University say that the plans of vacation after vacation have been upset by this circumstance.
It is to be recognized that the present vacation divides the period from the Christmas vacation until the summer with more equality than would the proposed vacation. On the other hand, the latter would divide the second half-year exactly, so that with reference to college work, the new location would not be unfitting. But, granting that the present vacation has a theoretical advantage in equally dividing the year, we believe that the practical advantage is all on the side of a vacation which has the greatest chance of making open-air amusements possible.
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