Neither of these two plans may seem adequate, but they are the best which, with the college's present resources, the faculty can find, and it is almost certain that the faculty will adopt one of them for next year. Those who favor the first plan are likely to say that the college can easily endure to begin work a half hour earlier in the warm months and to recite a half hour later in the winter months, and that under this arrangement a stated time, though it be short, will be set apart for the noon meal. Those, on the other hand, who favor the second scheme for putting in the hour from one till two o'clock are likely to say that it is unwise to set our chapel exercises and other work of the day at so early an hour, and that the short half hour allowed for luncheon is insufficient. They would say, moreover, that the second plan gives every man a chance to arrange his exercises so as to get a full hour for the meal which ought to come somewhere near the middle of the day; and that in almost every case the men would make such an arrangement.
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