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...tomorrow evening at 6.15 o'clock. This marks the hundred and fourth anniversary of the founding of the Orchestra, which is the leading college organization of its kind in the country. This year the Orchestra has been particularly successful, and will make a trip to New York during the Easter vacation. The speakers of the evening are: toastmaster, C. D. Clifton '12, conductor of the Orchestra from 1909 to 1911; P. G. Clapp '09, conductor of the Orchestra from 1907 to 1909 and now an Assistant in the Music Department; Professor B. S. Hurlbut, Dean of Harvard College; Assistant Professor...
Besides the above schedule the clubs will play at the following places after the Easter recess, the dates not having been settled as yet: Wellesley, Watertown, Worcester, Netwon, Maynard, Malden, Deham. There will also be a dual concert with Cornell probably at the time of the crew races...
...regularity, which should bear on the choice of the time for the vacation. Those students who live in Boston or Cambridge or nearby find present conditions perfectly satisfactory, but those who live at a distance find that except in those years when the recess week happens to coincide with Easter week, their holidays amount to little more than a period of isolated inactivity...
...common consent Easter, primarily a church festival, has marked the opening of a period of social activity. Most of the schools and colleges of the country, whether sectarian or not, have acknowledged this fact and ordained their holidays accordingly. Harvard is one of the notable exceptions. Harvard students who go to homes outside Massachusetts for the week of April nineteenth find that their Yale and Princeton friends and those who are at other institutions have had their good times and are now back at work. The festivities of Easter week have passed, while Harvard with supreme indifference kept them...
Perhaps it is too late to urge that this year's vacation be put at Easter time on account of the baseball games already scheduled for the latter week. This difficulty could be avoided very easily next year. By continuing a policy which ignores the recognized prevalance of Easter vacations Harvard gains very little material advantage for herself, but vitiatates to a great extent the value and enjoyment of the spring vacation for a great many students...