Harvard students now trooping back to Cambridge will find themselves turned loose for the next two and a half weeks, free to read and think and discuss and even to loaf if they think they can get away with it. The faculty is trying the experiment of suspending all classes and most of the lectures between the holidays and midyears. Except for laboratory work and conferences the student's time is his own. The use he makes of it presumably will be shown up by the exams. The idea is that education is too much time-tabled, and that young men ought to have some chance to seek wisdom instead of having it forever thrust upon them.

For some time past there has also been at Cambridge a vogue for "vagabonding." This means dropping in on lectures other than those in your regular courses. The CRIMSON fosters the practice by printing daily programs of the best lectures. All of which is much to the good, even if only for the reason stated by Deems Taylor, that " the incalculable value of college is the opportunity given to discover your own ignorance." --Judge.