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...Executive Committee have given abundant evidence of their ability to wrestle with difficult problems in mental arithmetic. For instance, given three judges and two ends of a piece of tape, problem, to place the judges so that the two ends of the tape shall be supported. The Committee have solved this by a master stroke, by placing two judges at one end of the tape, and the third at the other; but it seems to us that they have left out of consideration the feelings of the third judge. Isolated at one end of the tape, he is obliged...
...previous day. Likewise, the experiment of the "moving grand stand," which pleased so many people last summer, might have to be abandoned if more than one race were attempted, for the difficulties of operating it on a single-track road are at best very great. Furthermore, the problem of police management might suddenly assume serious and disheartening proportions if the excursion steamers were allowed to discharge their somewhat miscellaneous crowds upon the little city...
...mathematical talent of the Faculty is employed at present upon the difficult problem of arranging the mid-year examinations...
...some of the electives must be limited, this should at least be announced beforehand. But we cannot see what is the need of any limitation. The numbers are not so large but that the use of some larger recitation-room, or the formation of another division, would solve the problem. A little less reluctance, too, on the part of some instructors to have a few more examination-books to look over would make matters better...
...hope for a satisfactory solution of the problem in the next issue; but really, if they are going to put six-and-two-thirds Freshmen into their six oared crew, something ought to be done about...