SCARCELY a week passes without our hearing of the resignation of some one who has occupied a position of responsibility in a college society or club. Undoubtedly the men who resign have their private reasons for so doing, and into these reasons it is of course not our province to inquire. It often seems, however, as if they looked on one side of the question only. Before accepting a position of importance a man should weigh well everything that might be disagreeable to him; and after he has once accepted it is only just to the society that, in spite of difficulties, he should keep on. In many cases it is possible to get another man for the place, and the harm done is not so great; sometimes, however, it happens in college that, by reason of his peculiar fitness, a man is selected to take a certain office; if such a one resigns because the society is in a weak condition, he should remember that his resignation cannot fail to make that society weaker still.