The recent amendments to the articles of the H. D. A. seem to have been adopted wisely and after careful consideration. The third, and most important, which provides for two elections during the college year and the retaining of half the old board in office after each election, seems an especially good move. The great weakness of recent boards has been that, made up so largely of green men, they have, during a portion at least of their terms of office, been peculiarly open to the wishes and suggestions of the hired servant of the association. Any change, therefore, calculated to enable future boards to carry out a more consistent line of policy is a decided improvement.

The amendment establishing the auditor of the association as secretary of the board subject to its instructions, seems also to be a good one. The duties of permanent secretary have really come to be too onerous for a member of the University to have upon his shoulders, and further the change seems to have the advantage of placing the auditor in closer touch with the ordinary questions under discussion, whille avoiding the possibility of his taking a too influential position.