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SECTION 2. The place of meeting shall be decided by the annual convention for the succeeding convention...
SECTION 3. The convention, when assembled regularly in the place, and at the time above specified, shall proceed immediately with the following order of business...
...success in this important branch of her athletics, and should she succeed in keeping the Yale freshmen out of their coveted seat on the fence, their victory will amply repay them for any hardships undergone to gain it. '86 is already recognized as likely to take a high place in athletics, and now she is to have the best chance to show that her reputation is deserved...
...subject more thoroughly they will not be compelled to grind so hard just before the examinations. Furthermore, what is a great convenience and benefit to many, hour-examinations are dispensed with. The whole system amounts to a substitution of a series of informal, detailed questions and explanations in the place of two or three hurriedly prepared written examinations. We think that the instructor has had only the benefit of the men in view in adopting his method, and also that he deserves and undoubtedly has the support of a large majority of the men who comprise his section...
WILLIAMSThe Argo favors the scheme. "To us," it says, "this division of forces and reformation of associations, seems eminently practicable and desirable. In the first place the old scheme would make the membership of the league too great for a large or advantageous series of games between the different nines, and in the second place, such a game as Williams would play with a nine which stands any chance for the championship would be neither as profitable nor interesting as one with a nine more nearly her equal in strength...