WHEN we come back in the fall the societies which now occupy rooms in the buildings will have changed their quarters. The much-abused "shed" will be in position beside the hospital, and the new rooms will be fitted up. This change cannot fail to exert an influence on the character of the societies themselves, and so upon the habits of the men who are members of the societies. The change, in our opinion, will be felt in one of two ways. Either the societies, released from the control which their position in the Yard has given the authorities over them, will degenerate into noisy, less respectable, and more attractive institutions, or the interest in them, which cannot now be called intense, will die out altogether. The first result would unquestionably be bad; the second might be either bad or good. If the little remaining interest dies out of the societies, it will be transferred to something else, and according as this something else is better or worse than the society, the influence of the change will be bad or good. Whatever may be thought of the effect of this change upon the societies, no one can doubt that they have now reached a crisis in their existence, but which way the crisis will carry them will not be discovered until some months after our life here begins again next fall.