Show IT JT has been with a great deal of regret that we have watched the gradual decline of one of the oldest and most p popular of the University literary and debating societies It makes us fear that in some respects we have overrated overrated overrated over over- rated the ability and ente enterprise prise of students students students stu stu- dents here We have certainly given them some credit for some degree of originality and enterprise but our good opinion seems not to be wholly borne out The worst feature about this this' deplorable deplorable deplorable able lack of interest in students associations associations associations asso asso- is that it is manifested in the greatest degree by junior and senior students The record of those societies which admit all grades of students especially that of the Normal Society for the past year is a good one But the one society that has aimed at a higher standing higher standing has fail failed d to completely sustain its n reputation Of course this failure is relative rather than absolute Much has been done by the Delta Phi f 1 Tf p Society in the past and therefore J 4 much is expected of it Many of the ablest and most successful of the young young men men who have graduated from the iti U. U University h have ave b been een mem members b ers 0 of f t this h. h IS Jr w a 1 society All this ought ough t to make the 4 J members feel that they have a reputation reputation J tion to sustain they should do credit J-A J jI to the name others have made for them f J Jor or give it up |