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Plans are under way now for the launching of another trip, to be mad during the Easter vacation, and to include New York and points East. The choice between Hartford, Providence, Springfield and Worcester has not been made yet. This trip, to take in only three days, will mark a big step forward in the progress of the club, as it will be the first time that two visits have been made to foreign territory for more than a day in the same college year! Southern trips were made in Easter of last year, and in the recent Christmas holidays...
...Easter, the solemnization of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the most important date of the Christian calendar. It begins the ecclesiastical year, yet is a variable holiday fixed for each year by a complicated equation of epacts, dominical letters and Golden Numbers. It falls on the first Sunday after the Pascal full moon, that is, the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the vernal equinox). Therefore Easter cannot come before March 22 or after April 25. This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited...
Last week the Manhattan Merchants' Association stepped into the clear; advocated a constant Easter; stated in a bulletin that the second Sunday in April "will be" the date it believes will be adopted; said further: "A late Easter often proves disastrous to sellers of many lines of merchandise because it shortens the spring season, thereby reducing the volume of business, while the lengthened winter season is of little benefit. With the adoption of a fixed date, all such difficulties will disappear. Clergymen were vexed...
...passionate consciousness of race and nation" so natural to educated young men and women has been outraged too many times. The invasion of the Ruhr was a tremendous victory for all those Germans whom Americans in general regard as "reactionaries," the shooting down of German workmen at Essen at Easter time in 1923 was another, and every pinprick, big or small, has reduced still more the strength of the parties of the Left in Germany. Without the help of France, there would probably still be Socialists in the German cabinet and General von Hindenburg would most likely not be President...
...comes at a time when the team will be holding its first meet of the spring season. The two oldest colleges, the University and William and Mary, will join Washington and Lee University in a triangular meet at Williamsburg, Va. The track team has been invited to spend the Easter vacation at William and Mary...