Taking Notes

The invitation of the Harvard Student Council urging a delegation of Yaile undergraduates to spend tow days Yale undergraduates to spend two days under its residential regime firmly indicates the strong bonds of friendship between the undergraduates of the two universities. It is a generous offer which allows the hyper-critical student of another college to probe both the successes and defeats of the other. Mistakes there are bound to be where a revolutionary change has taken the place of a tradition hallowed by two and a half centuries of existence.

But more than this, there will be given an opportunity, par excellence, of examining and criticizing a system which Yale even now is contemplating. Surely no more thoroughly inquisitive being could be chosen for such a mission than a group composed of Yale undergraduates, reluctant as they are, to accept the inevitable. Unescorted by officers of either university, the proverbial ability of students to get the "low down" will prove the greatest value in determining the true state of affairs.

Life at Lowell and Dunster Houses will not be camouflaged to deceive either friend or enemy. From occupants themselves will come the most candid and critical expressions of opinion--something that administration officers, try as they will, could never get. Certainly the lessons that can be learned by the experience of another are of inestimable worth.

Whatever "verdict" the Yale delegation returns, its effect will be of enormous assistance in crystallizing the opinions of the entire university. We eagerly await the results. --Yale News.