Show I Editor University Chronicle a lat issue contained an editorial on the subject t of grading the debating societies May I obtrude an opinion opinions s somewhat at variance with yours You imply that we who began the grading movement ment did so because we were tired of our society work The fhe implication is not true No student perhaps has advocated ed grading more than I have yet I favored it before I became a student of the University or ora a member of either society Again it was not an idea that came on us suddenly suddenly sud sud- suddenly denly for I thought over it all summer and that too too when I intended joining the Delta Phi So Society It is to 10 be seen at a glance that with the higher courses in the school students have remained to finish them and by their actions in leaving one society to join another have shown that they favored grading Yet our past history shows that the course of society work has been an ebb and flow Part of th thime the time ime the Delta Phi has l led d and part of the time the Zeta Gamma has J Then hen why boast and say The societies are in one sense already graded Nor did the leading members of the Zeta Gamma ad advocate ocate that measure as members members members mem mem- bers of the society but as students of the University This is manifest in that it was not advocated in Zeta Gamma until it had been advocated in inthe inthe inthe the CHRONICLE in the hallways in private conversations and in the Delta Phi Society The best society in the end w will I absorb the weaker weaker then why has the Delta Phi at times times when it has been almost bruised to pieces mustered force enough to survive Why has the Zeta Gamma when hibernating for one whole winter not been absorbed by the other society You strike nearer the truth when you propose the origination of a preparatory society and the perpetuation of the other two only there isn't material enough to do it with Neither society has done the work it should have done during the past fall and winter Still the Zeta Gamma has done earnest sympathetic work but has had students of too many grades to well adopt its work to any of them The Delta Phi has done exceedingly well but could have done better The proper solution then is this and it is backed hacked in its general form bythe hy by hythe hythe the best thought of the University Organize a preparatory society and let the college students perpetuate the other two disband both or perpetuate perpetuate perpetuate one and disband the other as they may see fit ht Let this be done without the interference of the Faculty but constitutions must be changed if the students wish to prevent a recurrence of the drags and fizzes that have attended periods of society work during the past The University is now in a state of growth and its society work must also grow It has gr grown wn this year so that societies have on the whole done better work than ever before Yet the rumblings now heard must be heeded They are the natural cries for more systematization systematization of effort and systematize we must It will not be long until preparatory students will be unknown here Un Until il then must the society work be held below what we are able to make it As it if is offices are never held by preparatory students so they never get the experience that is to be obtained by presiding Do not deprive them of doing their own work arid d the college students working together until a larger number of society workers justifies justifies' two societies Ge George rg H. H Crosby Jr u. u |