Communication

[We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest.]

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

To those who witnessed the birth and death of the first Student Council, the superiority of the new organization is apparent. Nevertheless the new body although more representative than the old, will suffer from the same fatal defect. The scholar, the athlete, and the litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre in actual attainment for the Phi Beta Kappa. They are men of ideas, and (which is quite as important) leisure As graduates, X may be President of the United States and Y the head of a railroad-for such things have been: as undergraduates, they should be members of the Student Council.

Of course the classes could elect these men from the candidates at large; but they won't as is evident from the list of nominees. The reason is that the mass know only the mass. It would seem wise, therefore, in order to enlist the services of Messrs. X and Y, to revive the old provision, whereby some of the members of the Council are elected by the Council itself. If everybody is to be represented, let us have among the representatives a few nobodies-the singular of which everybody is the plural. A. S. OLMSTRO & L.