ONE EGG ?

"Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!"

The undergraduate appetite needs no assistance, but his digestion, often severely tested by a hurried lunch, is not so fortunate. Apparently for this reason, the Faculty has decided to change the schedule of afternoon classes.

No one will deny the benefits of health derived from eating slowly; and the men who have had classes until one and again at one-thirty will appreciate the greater leisure for the pleasures of the "convivial board". And, after sixty minutes instead of thirty, the mind should be much more refreshed and better fitted for attentive listening. Even if the abolishment of sleeping in afternoon classes is the only thing accomplished, this move will have done something towards efficiency.

But now that the matter is all settled, a word must be raised on the other side. Men having twelve o'clock as well as one-thirty classes are perhaps ten to each hundred who have afternoon classes but not twelve o'clocks. For the hundred, thirty extra minutes at the lunch hour are no gain, while the same time taken from the solid afternoon is a direct loss to study or athletics. And even for the ten, half-hour lunches are such an American commonplace that the extra time will hardly be appreciated. Unless the faculty's motives are more subtle than they admit, the change in afternoon hours cannot be approved wholeheartedly.