THE COUNCIL MOVES

The Student Council's recommendation that the University Register be published, despite the fact that delays due to fire in the press establishment in which the book was being printed will retard the appearance of the volume until the middle of February, is probably the best attitude to take toward an already tardy project. Last year there was no Register at all; this year there will apparently be one which although somewhat late in arriving will be, one hopes, at least satisfactory in other respects. The question undoubtedly may be asked as to whether a Register appearing in February can be considered satisfactory in any degree. The only logical answer must be found in sales figures. If the forthcoming Register sells--that is allowing for already contracted subscriptions -- it would seem to have a faithful public; if not, it is evidently a case of watchful waiters grown weary.

The Council's amendment of the disputed sixth clause in the Powers of its Constitution in which it claims the right "to prohibit any man who show an indisposition to respect the recommendation of the Council from becoming and remaining a member of any college activity subject to open competition," is weak. To add "in order fully to protect the rights of the undergraduate body" fails to invalidate any of the objections offered by the CRIMSON on December 8. The matter is merely further befogged and the new words introduced are conciliatory, without being explanatory. As the clause now stands it is longer but no stronger than it was before.