FIRST CRITICAL REPORT ON RED BOOK PUBLISHED

In a comprehensive report submitted recently to the Executive Board of the Sophomore class, the 1929 Red Book Committee has given an analysis of the system by which it was enabled to issue the largest, most complete, and most profitable Red Book in the history of the publication. This report is primarily for the benefit of the 1930 Red Book Committee and it will be turned over to its chairman by the 1929 class officers as soon as he is appointed.

It has long been left necessary that some sort of report be left by the Red Book Committees for the benefit of the coming Freshman class which is in most cases entirely ignorant of the enormous task ahead of it.

Suggests New System

The 1929 report advances the opinions of the editor and the various chairman regarding steps which might be profitably taken by future Red Book Committees.

It is suggested that an earlier start is requisite. By starting in March the Board has only five weeks before the publication goes to press in order to get it out by the date of the Freshman Jubilee. The business board ought to start on the first of December at the very latest. It was suggested that the photographic and arts and cuts board start work sooner also. The editorial board having the larger number of candidates to do its work and having to wait for the outcome of the spring activities, would not be able to accomplish any more by organizing earlier than March.

Price on Term Bill

Subscriptions ought to be charged on the term bill, the report states. If the Bursar will not do this, President Lowell should be appealed to, the report recommends.

Again attention is called to the fact that, under the present system of running the Red Book, the work of the business board especially requires too much time of its members. It gives no time for studies and the solliciting of advertisements is said to be in most cases "a polite form of highway robbery." It is claimed that the work with its immense amount of details ought to be cut down and that only legitimate advertisements should be obtained.

W. S. Youngman '29, Business Chairman of the 1929 Red oBok, has suggested that the book be run from the business end by some members of the Business School not connected with the class, for their own profit. Such men could use their own influence "without recourse to the dirty business of using the influence of individual members of the class," it is claimed.

It is also suggested that the Freshman Class publish a Red Book without adds, charging $6 for the book.