The resignation of the yard committee in consequence of the small vote polled, proves conclusively either that it is the distinct wish of the majority of the students that there shall be no yard committee, or that there is little general interest felt in the whole matter. The time has come when it is necessary for the college to express some definite opinion for or against the possibility of active student government. It is a disgrace to the university that upon a public poll open to every student of the college, only a small minority of the students felt called upon to vote upon so important a question, and that many of the minority treated the entire matter as a farce. We do not care to comment upon the levity displayed in the election itself, but we do feel called upon to censure as severely as we may the culpable failure of one of the most important elections yet given into the hands of the students. It is a disgrace that students who feel competent to discriminate in matters of religion are unable to act in a responsible matter in a mere case of gentlemanly conduct. It is a disgrace that Harvard students, when called upon to vote as a body upon a matter of moment to the whole university, not only fail to respond to the call, but even allow themselves to be betrayed into an action characterized only by boyish irresponsibility. It is a disgrace, that when the faculty have asked the students of the university to take sober action in a matter which concerned them as men, many of the students have shown so distinct a want of the responsibility of manhood. There are now but two things left for the students to do in justice to the reputation of the college; either to hold an immediate poll as to whether it is the desire of a majority of the students to have a yard committee, or to hold a second election at once to determine upon a committee who shall be elected by a majority of the whole number of the students of the university. We shall not comment upon the significance of the mass-meeting, we do not care to argue pro or con upon the make-up of the committee first elected. Only one of two things is now left the college to do; let the students show that they can do what as men they are now called upon to do. Every man who did not vote in the last election ought to feel that he neglected his duty to the college, and that his only means of reparation is, in the event of a new election, to cast a vote for the most representative men of his class.