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Another instance of successful co-operation by faculty and college students has recently come to our notice. Princeton was the scene of this happy occurrence. For many years the students have suffered under a ranking system which found little favor in any quarter. Even the faculty would have been glad to effect a change, had any suggested itself to them. As they did nothing, the students began to move in the matter. Seeing that the cause was a good one, the faculty had a conference with members of the upper classes. The result was very satisfactory, and a committee of undergraduates was selected to draw up a new scheme for ranking, to be submitted to the faculty. This committee did its work so well that their report was substantially adopted by the governing board, and the students are now happy, or at any rate happier than before, for it is said that no set of rules for ranking could be framed which would please all.

The successful outcome of this conference work at Princeton leads us to hope that similar beneficial results may ensue from the conferences which are so soon to be tried here. Everything so far is progressing smoothly, three out of the four classes have elected their delegates, a date for meeting has been appointed by the faculty, and we have only a week to wait before learning the result of the preliminary conference.