OPENING GUN

The publication of the Red Book in pamphlet form in the fall of the year, with the names, pictures, schools, and homes of the class of 1940, meets a crying need of both students and University officials that has been both evident and advocated many times. In past years the Red Book has not appeared until May and, consequently, has been of no use for identification or organization purposes until that time, when it was too late for the seasoned Freshman to do much more than gaze at the pictures and read of the activities of his classmates before they scattered from the concentration of the Yard to the Houses.

Although this step has been suggested before, it has up to this time been financially impossible without the permission for Red Book editors to charge their subscribers on the term bill--which the University so far has steadfastly refused to grant. This year it is possible only because last year's Red Book was more of a financial success than its predecessors. No longer will the classmate viewed skeptically over the Union's best Riverside Farm Eggs be only a familiar-looking stranger, and no longer will proctors, officials and coaches labor over University Hall files to organize their fall, winter, and spring activities. It is only to be regretted that the previous classes have not had the benefit of such a plan.