In yesterday's issue was outlined what seems to us to be, under present circumstances, the wisest plan for Memorial during the coming year; but besides next year, many other future years are to be considered, and the plan which would be the best temporarily would not be the best permanently at all.

The Corporation, we have every reason to believe, do not wish to look forward to a time when there shall once more be but one man to each seat in Memorial. The kitchen facilities could accommodate thirteen hundred, and board would then be so mewhat cheaper; therefore, say they, let us have the thirteen hundred. Now against such a policy we emphatically protest. That the capacity of Memorial Hall should be tested by its kitchen might be a necessity, but let it never be an ideal. Memorial Hall administers not only to the stomachs, but also to the minds of students, and better that a little more should be paid for the privileges of the hall than that the minds should be disregarded. The general table system, with its hustle, dirt, and promiscuousness, is not, to say the least, the best means to promote quiet and refined gentlemanliness. Club tables, and nothing but club tables, ought to be had throughout the hall. Other arrangements may be tolerated as make-shifts, and indeed we see no other course open at present, but let it be clearly understood that they are make-shifts and not established institutions.

We think it only right, if the Directors should carry out some plan for accommodating a large number of men next year, that the Corporation should make some distinct pledge as to a new dining hall. The general table system was introduced at the request of the Corporation, being represented as a purely temporary matter-to continue only till the new hall was built. The pressure at Memorial has increased, the Corporation ask for still greater accommodations, but the new dining hall is as far off as ever, and the Corporation even say that there is no chance for one at present.

This is not quite fair. We do not want to have things represented as temporary; bear them, accordingly, with good grace; and later on find that they are bound upon us hard and fast. The difference between something permanent and something indefinitely temporary we hardly see; and while we believe that students should and will show their willingness to meet the present necessity, we also insist that the Corporation, on their side, ought to take some decisive steps to remedy matters. What pledge is there that the whole of Memorial shall not some day be turned into general tables? Classes quickly succeed each other, and if the Corporation treats the concession of one class as the obligation of the next, what pledge is there that every "temporary" concession is not a part of the doom of the classes that are to come?