Very few of the business enterprises of undergraduates have ever yet made much of a success financially. Cases that seem to be exceptions to this statement have succeeded always for some exceptional reason; either because of extraordinary enterprise on the part of their projectors, or for outside support, or because of the friendly interest of associates, a few have prospered, and although it must be confessed that this lamentable fact is often due to the inertness and indifference of those who should be chiefly interested and would be most benefitted by student enterprises, yet it is unfair to lay the entire blame for the usual failure to this cause alone. It is much to be questioned whether it is not often the case also that the too ambitious aims of managers and the unbusiness-like character of the organization, is responsible for the outcome. Well, then, what is the moral for the cautious observer to draw? In a homely phrase, "Go slow." Two axioms in this subject are everywhere admitted: Firstly, that college students, as a class, are subjected to and suffer more extortion than any other part of the community, and secondly, that it is only through their own initiative that relief and reform can be secured. Cooperative schemes anywhere are doubtful undertakings, doubly so in college matters; and therefore, although the need of action on our part is universally admitted, it behooves us to look carefully in the first place to our beginnings; then not to attempt too much at once; and above all, to enlist the interest and active cooperation of the greatest number possible before taking any decisive step. Better, as the Crimson hints, bend every effort to securing one article, such as coal, at fair prices, than make a desperate endeavor to effect a reform of the whole market, and then find it impossible to manage our elephant with success.