Tomorrow is the last day of classes in Yale College for the fall semester, and the beginning of a six-day reading period before finals. Eighty-six years ago, in our April 1, 1938, issue, we reported on reading period when it was a relatively new part of Yale life. “Naturally, with so great a freedom from routine, abuses of reading-period privileges began to occur almost immediately after its entrance into the Yale curriculum,” our editorial read. But the editors concluded that, on the whole, reading period "has added an incalculably valuable element of maturity and self-reliance to the Yale educational pattern.”
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