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...Easter comes on Sunday...
...Spring Recess. I think the Faculty would willingly change the time, if a petition could be gotten up showing the desire for a later vacation, especially as Fast Day comes so early this year, and by having the vacation a week later we could participate in the Easter festivities at home...
...seems to me that the College has nothing to do with any religious fast or festival, - Holy Week, Easter, or anything else. It is conducted on a non-sectarian basis, and to change the time of a vacation because it interfered with the religious observances of any particular sect would be contrary to its policy. Even if five sixths of the men in college were Episcopalians, and were dissatisfied with the present time of the vacation, they would have no right, as Episcopalians, to demand a change. If they wish to have the vacations arranged to conform to the festivals...
...nonsense to say that the College would no more recognize Easter by changing the vacation so as to come after it than it now recognizes Christmas by having a vacation at that time. Not to mention the different character of the two days, there is surely some difference between leaving a vacation where it is, because, on the whole, it is the best time, and changing it to suit the convenience of those students who belong to a particular sect...
...certainly intended for enjoyment as well as suspension of studies; therefore, to fix one at a season when a decreased amount of pleasure will be obtained by many others besides churchmen is to neutralize the intention for which it is given. To find fault with giving a vacation after Easter, because Easter is an ecclesiastical institution, and Harvard is an unsectarian college, is almost as absurd as it would be to object to having a vacation at Christmas. Placing a vacation after Easter or at Christmas does not commit the Faculty to the recognition either of Easter or Christmas. These...