NEW REGISTER COMBINES ATTRACTIVENESS WITH VALUABLE INNOVATIONS

In the peaceful days before the Band performed each Saturday some new and amazingly complicated evolution, the appearance of the Register was greeted with more or less perfunctory applause. Everyone recognized its value, but few felt urged by curiosity to purchase a copy. This year the Register Board has done its best to change this attitude. The cover alone makes the volume a necessary ornament to every study table, to say nothing of the possibilities of amusement, on evenings when there is nothing else to do but study, offered by the delightfully puzzling charts of neckties and hatbands. And there must be a budding financial wizard on the Board who gives us all this at two-thirds of the former cost to our recently depleted bank accounts.

Last year it seemed as though the Register had made nearly every innovation that one could think of. The most striking novelty was the date of issue. The logical thing to do this year was to change everything back again. Fortunately the present issue is not completely logical. There is, however, a marked change in policy from former years. The book has become essentially a College, rather than a University publication, for the graduate schools have disappeared from its pages. This may be deplored as a sign of disintegration, and some may miss the quotations from "Harvard of Today"; but if these omissions have made possible the restoration of the geographical index and the directory by dormitories, the change will be welcomed by those who form the great majority of the readers--the undergraduates. Perhaps next year's Board will be able to include everything and satisfy everybody, if the supply of supermen holds out.

There is room for a few minor im- provements, of course. The tendency toward extreme conservatism shown in the failure to recognize the appointment over a year ago a new financial officer of the University seems somewhat inappropriate. Similarly the value of a list of the scholarship holders of last year is not immediately apparent, especially in view of the fact that the work on which these scholarships were awarded was done two years ago. This is a rather unfair criticism, though, since the official list of scholarships for last year will not be published until sometime this week, long after the Register went to press. Besides, it would be most unfortunate if the Register, by leaving the list out altogether, gave weight to the feeling that scholarship is not an undergraduate activity.

Seriously, the Register Board is entitled to most hearty congratulations upon a splendid job. If it had not been for the excellent organization and skilful planning of the work to be done, it would have been impossible to get out under great pressure a number which is so complete and so free from typographical errors. It is to be hoped that the labor will be duly appreciated