WE are glad to learn that the Directors of the Reading-Room are taking steps which look toward a surer foundation for the success of one of the best institutions within our University. It is generally known that during the years previous to this a large debt for gas was contracted; and now that the directors see their way clearly towards a debtless year of our own, it is proposed to pay off this debt of other years that has long hampered the actions of the association. To this end subscriptions are being tendered by the able and the willing, and through the liberality of such men the directors see before them a most promising year for the reading interests of the College. It is to such liberal-minded generosity of Harvard men that we see our College occupying its enviable place in the higher culture of our time; and we look to the able and thinking undergraduates to come forward now, and whenever there is need, to remove the burdens by whose weight the usefulness of the Reading-Room is impaired. The generous response which this call has already met with but indicates that the old true spirit of Harvard is still here, and shames the shamelessness of those men who sow only where they can receive a lion's share of the harvest.