TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON: -

AMONG the advantages which universities have is the one which comes from the fact that a large number of men are gathered together with interests more or less in common. Numbers always give a certain amount of influence, and I, for one, do not see why we should not use this as much as possible for our own good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead of clubbing together and getting the lower rates which competing roads are always willing to grant to a large number. Many other colleges do this for their students, and, so long as our authorities have not taken the trouble, why should we not do so ourselves? The foot-ball and base-ball teams are able to do it. All McGill students go home and return at Christmas for half the ordinary fare. Now, if the Grand Trunk, with the monopoly, is willing to make allowance for numbers, will not the New York lines, under the force of competition, be still more willing to do so?

P.