The communication about Memorial suggests the difficulty, which a single waiter would have in serving eighteen men, as a practical objection to any increase, temporary or permanent, in the number of men at club tables. We do not think this is insurmountable. To be sure, two waiters at a table would largely increase the cost of board. On the other hand, it would be possible to add a small number of waiters for service at the club tables whose sole duty should be to keep the tables cleared of dishes that had been used; and, further, to have an increased number of waiters behind the screens to distribute the food. The first of these plans has been tried at the general tables with good result, and the second would obviate a large amount of lost time. Indeed, it is quite plain that, at crowded hours, more time is spent by a waiter in obtaining food than in carrying it to his table.

We are not sure that precisely these plans could be put in operation, but the important fact is that additional waiters, increasing the present number not more than in the proportion of eighteen to fourteen, could probably so be used in perfecting the organization of the service as to maintain, for the increased number of men at club tables, an unlowered standard of service.

In speaking thus, we hope to be in no way misunderstood. Such a method is not advocated for permanent adoption. our position is this: that, under present circumstances, fair treatment of all the members of the student body calls for such arrangements as will accommodate a large number at Memorial during the coming year, and as will make the accommodations not glaringly unequal; but that the present necessity overcome by the prompt action of the corporation, an immediate return should be made to club tables, unalloyed, throughout the hall. If emphasis was to be laid on either of these opinions, it would be upon the latter.