The reforms which the Harvard Dining Association has adopted deserve no little commendation. The long, early line of applicants at Memorial every fall, and the laxity with which the strictness of the line was adhered to made the old system not only very inconvenient but often even unfair. As the men in college were in Cambridge every spring, it seemed going very far out of the way and putting the men to a great deal of extra trouble to to make them come back again before college opened and making them go through the inconvenience of standing in line in order to get a place at Memorial. It might have been said to be sure, that if the application for places were held in the spring, it would put those who were to enter college the next year at a great disadvantage, as most of them would not be able to be in Cambridge at the time of application. The present management of the association have shown that they think the chances of those who have not yet entered college ought not to be so great as those of the men who have been in college a year and who have not got into the hall. For this new arrangement practically says that men now in college can apply for places in the Hall and that if there are any places left after that, freshmen and others entering next Fall can apply for them. This certainly seems hard on the new men, but there are certain privileges which should go to upper-classmen, and the first chance for places at Memorial seems reasonably to fall under this category. If the present members of the college fill the Hall and leave no place for the crowd of men who want to come in next year, then it is clear that more accommodations are needed.

On one point in the new regulations, however, it seem to us that the change has gone a little too far. In the desire to give those who are at club tables the privilege of keeping the tables next year, the number of old members needed to reengage the table has been set at six.

When it is considered that the tables seat from twelve to fourteen men, six seems a very small proportion to which to entrust the privilege of reserving the table. Since within the last year club tables have been in all the greater demand owing to their limited number, it seems all the more unreasonable that only six men should be considered to constitute a large enough part of a club of twelve or fourteen to monopolize the control of a table to the exclusion of others.