It is interesting to notice the changes which have taken place during the past ten years in the relations between the Faculty and the students in the University. Judging of student sentiment by the editorial expressions in the college journals, for they are all that there is on record to which we can refer, the undergraduates of ten or a dozen years ago assumed almost invariably an attitude of opposition to the Faculty. The reason is not hard to discover. All questions bearing directly on student interests were settled by the Faculty with comparatively little consideration of the student opinions on these questions. The result was inevitable. The men were told, "You must do such and such a thing," and immediately the natural dislike to being treated like children brought out the reply, "We'll see if we do."

Traces of this old spirit of opposition are still to be found, and some members of the Faculty are far slower than others to relinquish the idea of an authority that is absolute. But within the past seven or eight years a great change has taken place and the bond of sympathy between the instructors and the students has grown much stronger. This result has been brought about by several causes. The creation of a board of freshman advisers has had the effect of making the first year men feel that the members of the Faculty are capable of a sympathetic understanding of the difficulties which perplex the new-comer. The very presence of the Committee for the Reception of New Students, composed as it is partly of professors and partly of students, at once impresses the stranger with the close relation existing between the two bodies. But perhaps what is contributing meet to bring about a more satisfactory state of affairs is the fact that for the offices with which the undergraduates come into the closest relations, men have been chosen who are well liked and have the confidence of the students. Whether we will ever be able to realize the idea of a university where students and professors shall work together and for a common end, it is hard to tell. For what has already been accomplished, however, we are thankful.