INORDINATE CUTTING.

The worst thing about the Student Council is that the undergraduates who elected it have shown no respect for their own handiwork. The requests that men shall not cut on the days of games have been ignored by 1215 men in the last three Saturdays.

The 497 cuts for the West Point game show how men give way to their quaint ideas about the right to cut, and the naive reasoning by which lazy men justify Saturday absences, argues well for a reconsideration of the present football schedule.

The Faculty is right in attributing the excess of cuts to the football games. The Student Council is right in requesting students to attend their Saturday lectures. But the undergraduates gain but every little by cutting on those days when their attendance is most important to the cause of athletics.