We recommend to our readers a careful examination of the statement of the president of the dining room association, which appeared in our yesterday's issue. The subject is one attended with some obscurity and is worthy of careful study on the part of the members of the association.

It is shown that although the auditor's monthly report exhibits approximately what the rate of board is, still an average of the monthly reports can not be taken as showing the price of board for the whole term. Furthermore, that the monthly report is useful in so far as it gives an approximate price of board, and therefore should not be done away with. In making up the price for the term, an approximated element, arising from the fact that the board for two or three weeks must be calculated ahead, must be taken into consideration. We would deprecate any thoughtless and unnecessary complaint on the part of members of the association, as calculating to injure the interests of the hall and of the six hundred students who board there. As we understand it, affairs are thoroughly investigated each month by an auditor who is regarded as fully competent for the position; and furthermore his report is examined and investigated by a committee from the board of directors, who may be supposed to have discretion and capacity.