Administration Disapproval Faces Midyear Recess Plan

The prospects for an increased midyear vacation seemed somewhat dimmer yesterday when it was learned that all the members of the University hierarchy were not pleased with the Student Council's plan to create the lengthened vacation by reducing the number of school days.

As the Council proposal now stands, a minimum of three days would be added to the present one day break between semesters. But the plan provides for the extra days to be drawn from the three-week Spring Reading Period.

Dean Leighton, in a conference yesterday, disclosed that some men felt the "central problem has not been met." By this, he meant that they believed the Council had never brought up the question of whether or not the "working year" should be shortened. He said the Council seems to have gone along, assuming that a vacation can be created from school days.

Previous Drive Successful

A few years ago, he said, there was a successful drive to hold Commencement at an earlier time in June. But the earlier date, he said, was provided by taking days from previous non-working days.

The Council might have been on safer grounds, he said, if it had recommended that the vacation come from non-school days, such as shortened Christmas or Spring breaks.

He believed that most faculty members were in favor of the proposal, because "they like a vacation as much as everyone else," but he said he had no idea how the Corporation might act.