Yesterday the forty-ninth editorial board took over the management of the "Williams Record." Particularly significant is the announcement of policy when it is considered in relation to the reorganized policy announced some time ago by the new "Yale News" board.

"Conservatism has too long been the sacred cow of the campus," proclaims the "Record." ". . . an emphatic farewell to political conservatism," shouted the Yale "News" only two months ago. These statements are actually pictures of the new trend in undergraduate journalism. They are pictures which cannot but call a word of approval from all papers which have long struggled for a vigorous, opinionated expression of the new student thought.

The final paragraph of the new "Record" board's policy is worth reprinting.

Good taste has been too often in years past a blind to camouflage insidious indifference. Long enough has Williams been merely a 'gentleman's college,' for lack of any more vital purpose. None of these outworn epitaphs of an intellectual graveyard does the "Record" intend to extol simply for their own sakes. It is high time that to the weedy, run-down sod we apply not a roller, but a plowshare, in the hope of encouraging some new and greener vegetation."