1 FEBRUARY 1913, Page 16

EASTER.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—As Easter falls this year on the earliest possible day "a. dislocates public business most inconveniently, the attempt ix the date somewhere about the first or second week of April will probably be made again. But is there any reason why schools should be bound by it P Some headmasters might regard it as an advantage to have their boys with them at Easter; it is the invariable practice here, and I believe at Haileybury. If the usual arrangement is followed this year Ascension Day will be in the holidays. (A parent might be tempted home from a warm climate to welcome his son, and a week of sharp frost might prevent the meeting. This is no imaginary case.)—I am, Sir, &c., E. D. STONE. Radley College.