The food at Memorial does not seem to improve very fast, although the number of complaints is very large now and increasing. To be sure we have been favored with meat at luncheons, which is a little fresher, and this is an improvement, no doubt. But why should we be served with potatoes that are unfit for eating, simply because the meat is better? It is a fact that a student going to luncheon at fifteen minutes past one finds great difficulty in getting any potatoes at all, and then, when he does get any, they are, or have been lately, almost unfit for eating. The lunch hour is from 12.30 to 1.30, and presumably the food is as good at 1.15 as at 12.30. There are many, who, on account of recitations, cannot get to Memorial till after one o'clock, and they ought certainly to have enough food, and good food at that. But as an accurate fact, on Friday and Saturday, at one table at least, there was an insufficiency of potatoes; and of the few which were served, two in every three were bad, absolutely bad. Is it not absurd that the famous dining hall of the largest and most respected university in America should offer to its seven hundred boarders potatoes, of which two out of every three are bad? In sober earnest, we think the proper authorities should look into the matter at once, if for no other reason than personal pride, and endeavor to furnish reasonably edible potatoes. They should know, if they do not already, that so long as the waiting list is as large as it is at present, just so long will there be nothing to urge the steward to give us too good food. We earnestly urge them to attend to this matter with all possible despatch, and to remedy an evil which is becoming a disgrace to the university.