SCARCELY A QUESTION

Committees, even Senate committees, generally decide something. It is to be hoped that the one appointed by the Union for the consideration of speakers will run true to type.

A guess might even be hazarded that the decision will effect some change. For when a question becomes sufficiently important to be referred to a committee the status quo automatically becomes in danger of change, for better or worse.

Few will doubt that it would be a change for the better for the Union to invite its speakers impartially from the camps of the New and the Old Order. It is the one center in the University at all large enough to accommodate a representative audience, and its organization is the only one capable of sustaining a schedule, of speakers long enough to include all sorts of opinion. In view of these facts it is certain that the Union will take its education responsibilities as seriously in the future as in the past.

Ideas of the "outside world" as expressed by speakers at the Union forms very definite part in the education of any interested undergraduate. If he feels that he has for the time gleaned all the instruction he can from talks on the League of Nations and kindred subjects by avowed conservatives, and that he would like to hear at first hand some of the doctrines he has only heard of as "moving forces in the world today".

If he possesses these sentiments and expresses, them through his committee he will of course he listened to.

The only surprising thing is that there should be any delay about making a slight departure in the type of speaker. But this can be explained by the Governing Board's desire to give time for the solidifying of undergraduate opinion so that audiences may be assured.

The Union, founded for the purpose of serving the undergraduate, has been splendidly maintained with that end in view. And the present Governing Board is not behind its predecessors in realizing that the best sort of service is the offering of opinions and the promotion of discussion.

The appointment of a special committee can only be considered a sincere if somewhat clumsy method of fixing general undergraduate attention. At least it will in all probability prove an effective one for rousing a large gathering to hear whichever liberal speaker the Union decides to invite for whichever one decides to accept!