OUR attention has been called to the very small number of rooms offered to the undergraduates this year, and, especially, to the fact that few of what are considered the best rooms are vacated. Nor can this be regarded as an evidence that there is to be less moving about this year than ordinarily. The complaints that are made are against the withholding of rooms when there is no intention of occupying, but merely a desire to hand them over to friends, or to put them on the market.

There needs little to be said to show the injustice of this practice, and we wish it were diminishing rather than increasing. The fact of living in a desirable room for three or four years ought to satisfy in itself, for it certainly does not confer the right of considering the room an heirloom to be handed down in perpetuity. But even worse than making over rooms to one's friends is the bartering for and selling of such rooms, often at a scarcity value. In condemnation of this we think nothing too severe can be said. It is difficult now at the best to procure a decent room in the April lotteries, for the prizes are few and the number of applicants suspiciously large; but at all events this flagrant injustice of withholding rooms under false pretences is one that should be stopped, and we should be sorry to notice this abuse another year.