Again this year the Camera Club gives evidence of a season of prosperous activity. Last March the experts who awarded the prizes at the exhibit pronounced the work of the club, judged by the highest standards, to be of a very advanced order. It was hardly to be expected that the present exhibit would deserve greater praise, yet such has been the case. The judges yesterday afternoon did not hesitate to assert a marked improvement in the work of this year over that of last.

This means a great deal. It means that the undergraduates of whom the Camera Club is in large part composed, are developing a skill in photography which in its best results can not be surpassed by either amateur or professional work today. This artistic skill is not confined to one or two individuals, nor to one or two photographs. The number of those who exhibit sets of great merit is increasing from year to year; while the particular photographs which in the present exhibit have received prizes, have been picked out as a mere formality from a number which are all alike excellent. The inference is that the Camera Club is actually becoming an influence in developing the faculty of artistic preception and appreciation. The tendency of most undergraduate life now is to let the artistic faculty become dulled by disuse. Whatever the club can do by the spread of its influence to counteract this tendency will be a real service to the University and will be applauded as such.