We are fortunate that the oration delivered at the Senior Class Dinner was submitted to us yesterday and appears in this morning's issue. The evils of which we have spoken are brought out here in a clear, forcible way, and must be appreciated by every thoughtful reader. As we look back over the field and consider what has been accomplished this fall, we can see how true at times, is that saying, "Things must grow worse before they can be better." In the spring of 1886 affairs were pretty bad, but it needed the athletic defeats of that season and of last year to enable us to comprehend the complete degeneracy of the artificial system which was ruling us. Last June was the culmination of the bad effects of that system. At the opening of college this fall there was latent a real determination to alone for our past disgrace. This feeling has now become a frank, open one and already there is an upheaval of the old forms. If every senior class will hold to worthy ideals, as eighty-eight does now, we may expect in the future victory and optimism, instead of defeat and pessimism.