MR. COPELAND will give the last of his Friday afternoon talks today at the usual hour. He will speak on the modern shor story, as treated by Ivan Turgenief, Thomas Hardy, de Manpassant, Miss Jewett, Miss Wilkins. Rudyard Kipling. Frank Stockton and Harding Davis. The subject is receiving so much discussion to day that it will be interesting and instructive to hear what Mr. Copeland has to say about it, particularly as we have no course in college which covers current literature.

WE have learned from a reliable source that the Corporation has no intention whatever of granting the petition for a dining hall which was sent to them by the Board of Directors of Memorial Hall. If the students do not accept the proposition made by the Corporation and described in the circular issued by Mr. Bolles, the University will have to go along with its present insufficient accommodations. This being the case we may as well take things philosophically. If the Corporation refuses to consider the wishes of six hundred men since they interfere with another plan, it will do no good to protest against their action. The best policy seems to be to take what we can get. If the restaurant scheme succeed, the University will be

nobody's loss but the Corporation's. With a building already erected the present scheme, if unsatisfactory may be altered until it meets all requirements.

We do not retract our statement made day before yesterday that in our opinion the majority in college is opposed to this new scheme on the ground that it does not meet entirely the needs of the university. Mr. Bolles' letter throws new light on the matter and clears up some of the objections which have been brougtht forward. But the main point as to whether a table d'hote and a la carte system can be worked together successfully, is not, we think, proven by the citation of gentlemen's clubs. there the scale of prices necessary to cover expenses, higher that could be introduced here advantage. It is a question if at the rates a man could live anywhere near the Memorial standard for four doars a week. However we need not concern ourselves with the success of the scheme if it is settled, as it seems to be, that the Corporation will not put up the sort of hall the students request. Apparently we have nothing to lose by accepting their plan, and perhaps a good deal to gain. As long as Mr. Belles has stated that the men who sign now will not be tied down hard and fast to the new plan, it wood seem to be our policy to make sure of the best that presents itself, and let the future decide whether the students or. Corporation are right.