SHORTENING OF COLLEGE YEAR

On recommendation of the Faculty, the Trustees have voted to close the College this year at an earlier date than usual. All holidays, with the exception of Town Meeting Day, and all recesses have been eliminated; the date of the opening of the final examination period has been advanced to May 16, and the examination period has itself been shortened by two days; Commencement will be held consequently three weeks earlier than usual, on May 25 to 27.

This action came as a result of an expression of the student body in favor of eliminating the Easter recess, thus avoiding the disintegration that followed the recess last year, and of closing early enough to enable all of those students who so desire—and . that means practically the entire student body—to begin their summer's work by June 1. The early closing will also enable those Seniors who are on call or liable to the draft to complete their college course. Palaeopitus conducted a questionnaire among the undergraduates to ascertain their feelings and opinions on the subject, which resulted in a vote of seventyone per cent of the students in favor of the'proposed plan, and twenty-eight per cent opposed.

To the alumni the chief point of interest in the change concerns Commencement. Final examinations will close this year on Friday, May 24, and Commencement will be held on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, May 25, 26, and 27. Tentative plans indicate that the Alumni Association will meet on Saturday morning; Class Day exercises will be held on Saturday afternoon; the Baccalaureate services will come as usual on Sunday morning, with memorial services on Sunday afternoon; Commencement will take place on Monday morning, followed by the Alumni luncheon at noon; the annual Senior ball will be held on Monday evening.