The editorial in the last number of the Advocate on the Couference Report is misleading in one or two respects. It deplores the omission of a clause specifying that a majority of student members shall have power to call a meeting of the conference, and states that there was an understanding between the faculty and the faculty members of the committee to that effect. As a matter of fact, the faculty left the whole question as to how and when meetings should be called to be decided by the committee itself-that is, to the student members. Such a matter falls naturally under the head of by-laws, and would therefore be arranged with other by-laws at the first meeting of the conference. The omission of such a clause was, therefore, the concession of greater power, not of restriction.

In the second place, as to the report faculty members are to make to the conference of action the faculty may have taken on the resolution of a previous conference, the Advocate says: "It would be better if the student members felt they had the right to ask the grounds on which the faculty based its action in case of disagreement." The faculty struck out the original clause requlring this, not because they were unwilling that this should be done, but because they knew from experience that it could not be done, exactly, authoritatively and officially. It would be impossible to give such a statement of the reasons that induced a large and hetrogeneous body of men to vote yes or no on a certain motion. The chairman of the committee would not be able to give a statement of reasons that would be satisfactory to even a large minority of the faculty who voted on the resolution, so the faculty arranged that the five faculty members of the conference committee are to report to the conference the official action that the faculty took, and are to give as five individuals, such reasons as they know of for that action. This was explained at the last meeting of the temporary conference, and the students there were quite persuaded that more than this could not be asked by them, or be done by the faculty.