Many pages of well-meant Student Council recommendations and much summer committee work have failed to make the Freshman class a coherent group. House unity has pretty much taken care of itself, but the vastly more important matter of class integration has been snowed under by meandering committees and lack of cooperation among the Housemasters. The task before the Houses and the Student Council is not so much that of promoting friendships among the entries, but rather of enabling Freshmen to get to know men outside their entries. Classes come and go with rapid succession today, and the Freshman who has made most of his friends outside of his class will be in for unpleasant months when he leaves college.

The appointment of Red Book editors, House beer parties, and entry get-togethers are sufficient in a business-as-usual atmosphere, but they cannot begin to replace the year of Yard and Union which all past classes have known. The solution to this situation is not to be found in intricate committee work but rather in a simple, direct program of immediate class integration. Too much, too late is a dangerous pitfall which has not been completely avoided by present plans. A program of simple inter-House dances, dinners, and get-togethers can do much more for Freshmen intermingling than elaborate but delayed planning. Such a program should be launched in the early days of the term. Perhaps it is already too late to integrate the vanguard of the Class of '46 but paper work must be scrapped for an intensive program of weekly or bi-weekly Freshman affairs in the fall.

Blame for the inertia and dawdling which has kept the proposed Inter-House Committee from developing more rapidly can be laid directly at the doors of the Housemasters, House Committees, and the Freshman Committee of the Student Council. Too hazy on its goals, the Freshman committee has sacrificed direct methods to complicated committee work; and too short-sighted to ignore House loyalties, the House dignitaries have preferred isolationism to cooperation. The original proposals for inter-House integration if carried out efficiently could have helped Freshmen to make friends among their own class and would have halted the rapidly growing segregation which is breaking classes and ages into an indistinct, confused muddle from which only further dislocation can come.