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WE are glad to see the efforts which are being made to arrange games in Exeter and Andover with the nines of the two academies. We have mentioned before the advisability of such a plan and we trust that this will prove to be the permanent revival of an old custom.

Stronger efforts should be made by the graduates of both schools who are here in college to interest in Harvard their former school mates. Men in a preparatory school know singularly little about the colleges for which they are fitting, to say nothing of colleges for which they are not sitting, There is an excellent chance for some loyal graduates to do good work, not only for Harvard, but for Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover themselves by using their personal influence among the students to interest and instruct them in the advantages which Harvard offers. Yet there is another way in which a great deal might be done with comparatively little trouble. Not for years has there been in either school, or least not in Exeter, a reunion of any class on commencement day. There has been some talk of a scheme of this kind but nothing definite has been done. A little engineering, however, a little push by a graduate of each academy, would, we think, be sufficient to arouse the necessary enthusiasm. A reunion would be a pleasant revival of past associations. It would come at a time when nearly every one is through with examinations and free to do as he pleases; and it is easy to see to what satisfactory results it might lead.

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