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An experienced and efficient 1938-39 Gold Bug staff, trained under the organizing genius of the 1937-38 editor, took over in April 1938 and, during their incumbency, were able to make several tangible and constructive departures from former Gold Bug practice and policy. By increasing its size and efficiency, the staff was able to publish the paper weekly during the fall months of 1938. Although it was forced by finances to revert to the traditional bi-weekly schedule after the Christmas holidays, it had paved the way for a future staff to adopt a complete weekly schedule by showing that the staff was capable of publishing a weekly paper and by demonstrating the inestimable advantages of a weekly paper both by its-own quality and by its stimulating effect on campus life. The Gold Bug editorials in 1938-39 were distributed more evenly among campus and national affairs. Although a year was too short a time for the accom- plishment of many of the campus reforms which the staff advocated, it will have done its part when those reforms are ultimately effected. By acceptance of the 1937-38 plan of organization, the 1938-39 staff was able to make its signal accomplishments and leave a well-trained and well-organized nucleus of underclassmen to continue its unfinished work. NEWMAN SHERRARD Eighty-five