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...built into his Houston home. Because he feels that "our audience is at least as intelligent as we are," he treats advertisers as they have rarely been treated before: he puts on their commercials only when he sees fit, edits and cuts them. Barbe is busy planning an elaborate Easter week program including Marcel Dupré's Stations of the Cross and the Bruckner Te Deum. Says he: "The assumption that the American people do not know and do not like good music is strictly for the birds...
...Easter vacation is "Rugby Week" in Bermuda. Twenty varsity ruggers will fly down to the Island Saturday night to compete in the annual tournament against six teams, including Yale, Dartmouth, and squads from Britain and Canada...
Fortunately, Christmas Day falls on December 25, so the faculty may accustom their minds to this date, and remember that there should be a vacation. Easter, however, presents many, many problems. It is on the first Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon, which means Easter Sunday may vary between March 22 and April 25. Astrologists have determined when it will fall until...
...exams, which usually start about the twentieth, also present a tedious blockade to Easter with the family. If the spring recess were only a month before finals, (Easter will be on April 25 in 2038 A.D.), students would have a scant three weeks of cramming before the exam period. Yet incredulous as it is, some students have done admirably with only two weeks before January exams...
...Harvard calendar extends far into the future, no immediate change is possible. But the family consciences of family professors and instructors can only be proud if they neglect to take attendance at Monday classes. Easter spirit requires no less...