IN UNION, STRENGTH

The promised Temple to Sane Eating to be erected on the former church site at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke streets has not materialized, and it appears that the "cafeteria" menace will go unchecked as ever for at least another year. Nor is this failure of the authorities to provide a new Dining Hall much their fault. Undergraduates simply do not seem to wish to return to the club table system which existed in Memorial Hall for fifty years, and to which President Lowell thinks they will return. But 180 men were willing to commit themselves to club tables in the CRIMSON questionnaire. Five hundred are needed to make a new Dining Hall financially successful.

The Union alone can now provide what would be the purpose of the proposed Dining Hall--a balanced diet, eatening liesure in attractive surroundings. If it is far-sighted enough to secure an inspired dietician such an attractive and varied menu as to wean men from the eating machines in which many reputedly ruin their digestions, it will advance the discussed-ad-nausem cause of a civilized eating.

The increased budget for the Union library is gratifying, for the combination to be found there of a complete collection of books at one elbow and an ash tray at the other is as much an aid to civilized study as the restaurant may be to meals.

This library its pool and card rooms its fairly attractive furnishings give the Union the facilities to be what it calls itself--a club, rather than a mere allunct of the H. A. A., or a housing for mass meetings. Intelligent direction of the governing board may very possibly make it mean more to a great part of its members than an extra ten dollars on the term bill. Good speakers might aid in bringing them there.