We are glad to hear from the class day committee on the subject of the cap and gown. It cannot be objected that the matter has not received careful enough attention for the committee have certainly been deliberate in awarding the contract. The report answers very satisfactorily a question which was raised when the subject was first discussed, the question of expense. It was urged that the cost of the caps and gowns would be far too great for the short time they were used. Fabulous figures of twenty or thirty dollars floated through the air, and an impression was cast abroad that the purchase of a cap and gown would be much beyond the means of some of the more needy members of the class. The contract has now been made to supply the gowns with the caps at a cost of but $7.50; for this contract the committee is to be congratulated. When it is considered this $7.50 is perilously near the price of a good silk hat, such as have previously been worn, the outcry against the excessive expense of the new custom may be said to be pretty well answered.

The distinction to be made in the case of the class day officers is a good one. The men have been elected by the class to their offices in recognition of some particular merit, and such marks of honor should have some recognizable feature on Class Day. The red tassel seems in an unostentatious way to provide just this badge of honor.

There is one point in the committee's recommendations which we should be inclined to question. The committee doubtless has admirable and well considered reasons for deciding that the gowns shall be worn through the evening. While recognizing the advisability of having the Class Day dress as uniform as possible, and while seeing the force of feeling which wishes to keep up the scholastic idea of the senior class throughout the whole day, we cannot but believe that, practically considered, the gowns on a hot June evening, especially in a crowded room where there is dancing, will be rather uncomfortable, and as far as the dancing itself is concerned, inconvenient.