Yale students do not generally seem to oppose the ultra-conservative policy of their college. The college papers indulge in frequent sarcasm upon the subject and one might imagine from their tone that the condition of affairs at Yale was altogether very gloomy and hopeless, and that such a thing as progress was quite unknown in the Yale faculty. It is quite to the honor of Yale students, as of all college students, that they are always to be found on the side of progress and in favor of more liberal methods. A lively interest is taken at Yale, if we may judge from the tone of her press, in the successive steps taken by Harvard towards a broader university system. Concerning the recent appointment of a faculty committee of conference at Harvard, the Record moralizes; "Harvard has made many and frequent changes in her educational policy during the past few years, and these seem to have led and to be leading to other and more decisive innovations. She has now arrived at a point where gradual changes must soon cease and the entire surrender of former traditions, customs and systems only remains."

"But here at Yale," continues the writer bitterly, "such a committee would be superfluous, and will be for many years to come. The sentiment in the faculty seems, to all appearances, so unanimously in favor of precedent and slow concession that any participation in the management of the college, either active or advisory, by the students, is a thing of the far future. Those secret conclaves of the faculty around which hangs so much mystery, and from which go forth mandates and decrees not to be questioned, are soon apparently to be peculiar to Yale, and will probably be the most conspicuous and lasting monuments of her conservatism long after the present generation has passed away." On the same subject the Princetonian waxes eloquent and gives the plan its hearty commendation. We may, perhaps, look to see the experiment tried at other colleges, that is, if student opinion can bring about the adoption of the plan.