Show Classes on Thanksgiving While we civilian students have been moaning and groaning about the fact that we have no Christmas we've thought only of ourselves and have overlooked the plight of those worse off than we the men of the Consider their Thanksgiving day would be bad enough anywhere if it couldn't be spent at but the classroom is almost the worst place of especially when there's a football game That's cadets will spend a a o- i Students Must as usual Study On Thanksgiving going to None of including the former Utah ROTC will be excused for the Thanksgiving AH of which is too particularly when we consider that the various Salt Lake men's clubs have organized drives to get tickets to the game for the service men and are trying to fill up one whole half of the stadium with boys in But not the worst of it the Army decrees they shall have no New Year's vacation Even those men who have classes with civilians will be required to attend by which the recognizes for men will be Christmas aside from the the whole business is hard on the who will forsake their holiday The situation as it stands is not the fault of university who receive their orders from the Service nor is it the fault of Service Command The order was issued through the War applying to units throughout the according to Colonel George E. chief of the Army Specialized Training because men will have no It's enough that men on fields of battle will have no But does it follow that because some soldiers are others must be Cadets Deserve Freedom not a them far more good by building morr On National Holidays ale than will a day's done with None can deny that the men work long and hard and it is therefore difficult to understand why they must be kept to the old grind when other soldiers throughout the nation will have a day's We realize and agree with Army's ruling about no Christmas week we're willing to forego this vacation but we no not hold with the Army's policy of keeping the cadets in classes during two of the biggest holidays of the When civilian classes are dismissed for these Army classes should be |