A correspondent in a communication published in this issue, comments upon the action taken by the Conference Committee at its last meeting. This dissatisfaction is due to two causes, partly to the inaction of the Conference Committee in the first two meetings, but mainly to an extravagant expectation, on the part of the students, in keeping with neither common sense nor the nature of the Conference.

It is true that the resolutions passed at the last meeting might have been passed at the meeting before. This in action deserved censure, but it by no means justifies the extreme stand taken by our correspondent. The communication is based on several misapprehensions. In the first place the conference has not concluded the discussion of the marking system. The conference, again, was not organized "to tell us, after three months of discussion, that the present marking system is unjust," nor were the resolutions passed designed to tell the students anything. They were intended to tell the faculty something, and this end, we claim, they will accomplish. The information will, we believe, be of positive worth to the faculty, and will render material assistance. Our correspondent again is relying wholly on imagination when he takes it for granted that the faculty are living in a "sterile atmosphere of extreme conservatism." Nothing but ignorance or malice can dictate such a statement.

Let our correspondents and all students whom he represents judge the conference harshly, only when they have positive knowledge on which to base their judgement. Let maturity of thought and investigation of facts have their wholesome effect on comments intended for publication. Wait, give the conference a chance, and it may show that it deserves something besides hasty censure.