We call attention to the resolutions of the Memorial Hall Board of Directors published in another column. For the last three months there has been one continual round of criticism through the college press upon the directors, the board and the service; one table after another has left the hall until only 300 boarders remain. The crisis is at last reached; it is only a matter of a few more boarders more or less which shall decide whether the association shall suspend or continue. A committee of fifty has been appointed to regain the patronage and confidence of the students, and we hope that they will meet with success. Once let the Dining Association stop, and then we shall realize how much we owe to it, and not until then will the students see how much it has done toward cheapening the price of board in Cambridge. To be sure, there has been good ground for complaint in the past, but only let the old boarders return, let them take a personal interest in the welfare of the association, instead of heaping reproach upon the directors, and all may run smoothly yet, the board will be better and the price lower. The first important measure for the committee, or whoever has the care of such matters, is to prosecute a strict inquiry as to the cause for the present stampede, and if any person or persons are to blame, to make known the fact. There must be some reason for such wide-spread dissatisfaction, and the only way to restore the lost patronage is to seek it out, acknowledge and eliminate it. We speak thus strongly upon the subject, as there is urgent necessity that vigorous measures be taken: The association has done a great deal of good in the past and may still continue its usefulness in the future, provided we all take an interest in and support any measures for its good which may be taken by the directors.
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