STUDENT COUNCIL REPORTS

At a meeting of the Student Council held in the Trophy Room of the Union last evening the secretary read reports of the actions of the Executive Committee and various sub-committees since the last meeting, and these were approved. The reports had to do largely with the work of the committees in regard to the Freshman elections, managership competitions, inter-paper smokers, and the Advocate-Monthly merger, which have already been announced in the CRIMSON.

As the result of an investigation of the matter of better fire protection in the Yard buildings, the Executive Committee reported that Mr. Burke, the inspector of Grounds and Buildings, had already started to work on a system that shall operate both automatically and by hand, and expects to have it in running order by next fall. The Executive Committee also announced the approval of W. L. Ustick '13 as chairman of the Committee on Organizations.

In pursuance of the recommendation of the Committee on Undergraduate Publications, it was voted to strike out the by-law passed on March 13, 1912, reading "that all undergraduate publications, within four weeks after the beginning of College, unite to hold a common smoker for Freshmen at which a representative of each paper shall be invited to speak. This common smoker is in no way to interfere with the individual smokers that the different publications may desire to give." The committee was of the opinion that such a smoker is impracticable, owing to the individual smokers held by the papers and the differences in time at which the various competitions are held.

President Lowrey spoke of the importance of every member of the Council urging undergraduates to sign up for work in the navy, so that this matter may get a suitable start this summer. A motion that it be recommended to the Athletic Committee that each man on the wrestling team who wins his bout in the meet with Yale be awarded an insignia, was passed. A. K. Reading 1G.B., business manager of the Register, urged the importance and necessity of using up the trade advertisements in the Register. The proposal made by J. A. Donovan '13, that a member of the Debating Council should be on the Student Council, was referred to the Executive Committee for consideration.

At a meeting of the Executive Committee which followed, it was voted to recommend to the Athletic Committee that the tennis team be allowed to assume the design of the old cricket hatband, and the appointment of R. Morris '14, of Omaha, Neb., as assistant manager of the tennis team was approved.