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...which is, to play the game according to the Rugby or the McGill rules. If this were thoroughly tried, it would, I believe, be most satisfactory to both parties. It should certainly be so for Harvard, since we were well skilled enough in these rules in the spring to make a game, with the McGills even, last three half-hours, nor was a goal gained by either side. Again this fall, with very few of last year's players and with very little practice in the McGill game, owing to the preparation for the Graduate match, we won a victory...
...proposition to change the dinner-hour to the latter part of the day will soon be brought before the College for censure or approval; the changes which this plan involves are of great importance, and careful consideration must be given to the subject, that we may not thoughtlessly make a decision that will afterwards be regretted. Arguments for one side of the question have already appeared in the Advocate, and the advantages of late dinners presented at their best. To take up the arguments for the other side, it is to be noticed, first, that although athletic sports are important...
...twenty-five per cent in the excellence of all one's themes would reduce one's general average only one per cent. It is scarcely to be expected that a student should devote fifteen hours to writing and rewriting a theme, when twelve hours' less application would make a difference of but one sixth of one per cent in his year's mark...
...rest, in the end, on individual convenience. We can only ask for fairness on both sides, and suggest that it may be harder for the boating-men, etc., to give up their exercise, outdoors or in, or to take it at inconvenient times, than for the hard students to make a different disposition of their hours of study...
...merely proposing such an improvement is, we know, questioned, but few men are generous enough to take the matter into their own hands, and it can only be hoped that in the present instance, at least, the suggestion may reach those who alone have authority to make the change...