THE Directors of the Reading-Room have been laboring with commendable zeal, and with some success, to free the Association from a large gas debt. Many magazines which could be seen in the Library have been dropped from the lists, and the number of magazines now to be found in the Reading-Room is less than ten. We could wish that even these be discontinued, for they are all to be had in the Library, where they are much more likely to be sought for. While the Reading-Room supplies no need in the way of magazines, it does supply a real need in the way of newspapers. If the Directors would limit their subscriptions to the leading papers, and reduce the membership fee by one half, the debt would be paid more rapidly, and the present Freshman might hope, before the end of his college course, to peruse a Reading-Room paper by gaslight.