Communications.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -Such an excellent scheme as the proposed faculty conferences ought not be given up without a trial. Nothing could be better adapted to restore the satisfactory relations which certainly ought to exist between the students and their instructors, but which, it would be admitted, have become of late somewhat strained. Doubtless some difficulty may be found in selecting a representative body of students, but this ought not to prove an insurmountable obstacle. Surely we are not going to admit that we are unable to accomplish what other colleges have successfully done. If no other method of choosing a student committee seems practicable, we might imitate, in part, the system which is followed in the selection of the men for the great secret societies of Yale. One representative, or perhaps two, might be elected from each of our secret societies, from each of the athletic organizations, from each college paper, and from the men who are not identified with any of these interests. In this way a body of students would be secured which would fairly represent all shades of opinion.

Another suggestion that might be offered, though possibly of minor importance, is that the faculty should oftener make use of the college papers in communicating with the students. Student opinions are fully set forth in the Harvard press, but faculty utterances are extremely rare. '86.