The New Conference Committee.

In the past week the Faculty have taken another step in the direction of establishing relations of more perfect harmony between themselves and the students. The committee, appointed from the different classes, will soon be called upon to express their views as to the best method of a permanent conference.

This is an opportunity for a decided improvement in regulating college matters pertaining directly to the students. It is to be hoped that the students elected to serve on this committee, will appreciate the importance of this opportunity and improve it.

A body of students having merely advisory powers, can do but little in effecting a change for the better What is needed to bring about har mony between faculty and students, the government of athletics especially, is something more.

The members of the faculty may have perfectly just intentions, but the enforcement of the athletic regulation of the past year has surely been of the nature of "taxation without representation." The public meeting and the call for expression of student opinion and advice, have merely afforded a shield for the members of the Athletic committee, from the charge of undue severity.

What is needed is a body of representative students, elected by their classmates, that shall have executive power in strictly student matters. It is this principle on which Memorial Hall is governed, and the present prosperity of this association strongly recommends its extension in other directions. Had the faculty assumed the power in regard to Memorial that they do in regard to athletics, the former steward would still be in office, and the price of board would be in the neighborhood of $4.50. The directors fortunately had the absolute power of dismissal by a two-thirds vote. By this power a change was effected, contrary to the advice of the president, and under protest from several members of the faculty.

Give the students similar power in the athletic department, and fewer mistakes would be made and better feeling would exist between two bodies that have equally at heart the fame of Fair Harvard, and, in this department at least, should not be in the relation of governors and governed. M.