WE have received an article from a graduate requesting us to call attention, for the purpose of rectifying, to the encroachments which undergraduates have been making for the past two or three years on Commencement Day.

The chief complaint is that under-classmen have of late fallen into the habit of making themselves somewhat free in the rooms which have been loaned to graduates on Commencement Day, and have also felt it incumbent on themselves to fill quite a number of seats at the Alumni dinner. This conduct, though in the first instance it may be the result of thoughtlessness on their part, still is unpardonable, and it would be well in future for students who contemplate indulging in this kind of pastime, to pay a little regard to the feelings of the graduates. For they must know that graduates feel that they have a peculiar right to come back to the old spot once a year and enjoy themselves by themselves, and they regard as an intrusion the entrance of undergraduates on what they consider, and justly too, their own domain. This encroachment was particularly noticeable last Commencement Day, and in one or two cases under-classmen deliberately marched into and took possession of rooms to the almost utter exclusion of the graduates. It is to be hoped that by next Commencement Day students will have a clearer sense of the proper line of conduct to pursue, and, henceforth refraining from further intrusion, will leave the graduates to the unalloyed enjoyment of the day.