Below is given a list of the officers of the Union elected yesterday with the number of votes cast for each: N. Kelley '06 was elected to the Membership Committee by 202 votes but has withdrawn his name, since as secretary he is a member of it ex-officio. A Vote of 364 to 60 showed that the members of the union were in favor of having the undergraduate dues of the Union put on the term-bill, if it could be arranged. There will be a meeting of all the newly elected officers at 6 o'clock in the Committee Room of the Union. At the business meeting last night the reports of the various officers and committees were read and approved. Those of the Treasurer and House Committee appear below. The reports of the Membership and Library Committees will appear in a subsequent issue of the CRIMSON. HOUSE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. The question of finances at the Union this year has been more difficult than ever before and this is due entirely to the low membership, as is evident in the report of the chairman of the Membership Committee, Nevertheless, the House Committee decided to improve the service in the dining room at all costs and the results as proven by the larger use of this room and the almost complete absence of complaints, have been highly satisfactory. The Treasurer's report shows an increase in receipts of $1,697.28 over last year, but despite this the restaurant may have as large a deficit as before, owing to the greater expense of this improved service. A sixty-cent dinner has lately been instituted and seems to have met with the approbation of all the men using the restaurant, and although it is rather early to make any definite statement, there is no reason why it should prove any greater expense to the Union than the seventy-five-cent dinner. In the case of the restaurant it must be borne in mind that the question is merely how little the loss can be made. The lunch counter has not only shown a complete loss but also indications of a large deficit at he end of the year. The trouble has been in the loss of the man it last year and whose popularity was a tremendous assets. When he moved to his present place of business on Harvard Square, he took nearly all his patrons with him. The Committee has maintained this lunch counter at a loss merely because they fell it to be a great convenience to members. The House Committee has done everything in this power to provide a suitable list of entertainments and so far 27, including class smokers, have been given, as compared to 19 of last year. The great difficulty to contend with has been the question of expense and the nature of the entertainments to be procured. There are so many lectures on various topics of live interest being given nightly in other parts of Cambridge, that this particular form seems to attract but small audience. It has been found that entertainments of a strictly entertaining nature are really more acceptable. However, it is extremely difficult to get the latter without paying large prices for them. Through the kindness of Mr. A. P. Keith '01, we have been able to give a vaudeville performance composed of a number of acts from his theatre in Boston. This proved a great success and was appreciated by a large audience. Two successful innovations have been the Pop Concerts and the Junior Dance, and now a series of lectures on the various professions is being arranged for The importance of these entertainments towards increasing the membership cannot be too strongly emphasized and I advise the formation of a permanent fund the income of which could be used for their support. Another vital question is that of abuse of the Union. This is undoubtedly very large, probably larger among the graduates than among the undergraduates. It is perfectly possible to keep a man at the door and force every member to show a ticket before entering, but the inconvenience of such a system is apparent. No definite action has been taken in the cases of the few men already detected, but in the future their names should be published. An appeal to public opinion would seem to be the only means of bettering this extremely unfortunate state of affairs. The new policy of allowing only those societies having over 60 per cent of their members, members of the Union, the use of rooms has worked most satisfactorily. The direct results have been (1) to reduce the number of societies using the Union from 61 to 48, and (2) to increase the membership of the Union considerably, as nearly of the societies having less than 60 per cent, have raised their percentage to the required point. The Committee advises a light ring of the ropes in this respect another year. One of the smaller bed rooms has been allotted to the exclusive use of the Law School clubs for the College year. Despite the rather black outlook of low finances and memberships, there can be no doubt that the Union is being actually used more satisfactorily and by a larger number of men than ever before. Many have found that membership pays from purely selfish motives and that the Union is a source of almost indispensable convenience. The actual use of the Union in this way will do more towards strengthening it as a democratic force in the University than all the forced mass meetings and class smokers possible. In closing I would like to thank the members of the House Committee for the interest they have shown and the active part they have taken in shaping the Union policy this year, and also Mr. Thompson for the invaluable assistance he has afforded the Committee
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