It is a source of great relief and pleasure, after the excitement and wordy warfare of the past few days, to find that after all the "Tree" exercises are not in such imminent danger of being abolished as students were at first led to believe. The Class Day Committee was yesterday told that its last set of proposed changes will serve as a basis for an adjustment of the debated question; and that the position of the committee of the Corporation on the "scrimmage" has changed from what we were led to believe was their immovable opposition to an apparent readiness to agree to the changes proposed by the Class Day Committee.

The news is pleasant for several reasons. It means that the Senior class will not be forced to abandon without its consent the old custom of scrimmaging and that the present Class Day exercises may be retained in something like their old form until the class shall see fit to adopt some substitute or improvement, if one be found which commends itself as better than the old form.

For another reason, almost as satisfactory to many as those preceding, the outcome is pleasant. We were led to believe that an important part of a set of exercises, wholly for the pleasure and under the control of the class, was to be abolished without the consent, and almost wholly without asking the opinion, of those who were most directly concerned. The class was even informed that a petition signed by a majority of their number would not have weight. This was one of the most irritating circumstances in the whole affair and led to much of the bitter feeling which prevailed. To find that one part of the University will not inconsiderately disregard the feelings and opinions of another, as at first we believed it intended, is a cause for rejoicing.