The extension of the coming winter's Christmas holidays to the Sunday following New Years Day rather that the conventional January second and let it fall where it may, is a step long desired by undergraduates and one which should greatly enhance the possibilities for Yuletide convivialities without disturbing the year's scholastic program. Although the announcement comes at that particular time in the year when any ordinary reference to Christmas provokes no more enthusiastic display of emotion than a reminiscent leer, it bears such an unmistakeable tang of Santa Claus about it that it justifies some comment.

As the CRIMSON pointed out earlier in the year, the traditional schedule which terminates the winter recess on January second, filling Pullman cars with undergraduates still in the throes of post New Years Eve nausea, has not been warranted by circumstances involved in the policy of having a reading period. When the second falls in the latter part of a week, and no one has been able to prevent it from so doing with annoying frequency, students are deprived of an entire weekend to attend often only, one or two classes. It is an extraordinary class that can single handed compensate for the loss of a weekend even to the most scholarly minded, and the contemplated holiday reform should go a long way toward diminishing post-Christmas blues and hullabaloos and starting in a new year in the proper frame of mind.

The administration, in adopting the plan for a more satisfactory vacation, have followed the weekend proposition to its logical and final conclusion in having the recess not only end but begin on a Sunday. While the projected prolongation for next winter's holidays is not as yet a permanent institution, being in the nature of a special dispensation for experimental purposes, there is every reason to believe that the results will justify a continuation of the policy.