If the beginning may be taken as any positive indication of what is to follow, the Student Council is in a fair way to be all that its creators hoped. As was pointed out in these columns last Saturday, the way was cleared for action; the formerly unwieldy size of the body had been reduced last spring to reasonable limits; the duly elected members seemed to be persons of acumen and at least average probity; all that remained was for these men to choose colleagues of equally distinguished possibilities.

So far as may be determined by this morning's announcement, they have done so. The roster of new appointees, while still slightly suggestive of the playing fields, is refreshingly free especially as regards the Senior appointees from that wholly athletic appearance which characterizes most rolls of honor of undergraduate selection. The new members are thoroughly representative, and have all demonstrated their capacity for work other than that of a purely manual character.

The Council, then, is complete. Its size is designed for efficiency, and its personnel is all that could be asked. What will it do? It has before it the record of other councils who have year in and year out met, listened to the secretary's record of the previous period of traditional inaction, and passed on, serene in the accomplishment of nothing. It has also before it the record of its parent, the Council of 1923-24, which, being driven mad by the repeated goads of a few tireless souls, labored and brought forth several valuable mice among them, for example, the decision on Junior Managerships, which has since been neatly entombed somewhere in the inner sanctuaries of the H. A. A. It is within the power of this new-old Council to be a very real force in the life of the College. Whether or not it does, depends solely on the one factor which can seldom be determined in advance the inclination of its members for serious and sustained work.