IN a circular which we suppose has reached the hands of every occupant of a College building will be found the following words: "Extensive repairs are to made on College buildings this summer." We remember meeting just those same words for four successive years, and after four summer vacations looking in vain for these extensive repairs.

But the phraseology is not for us to discuss; we merely wish to suggest a means whereby extensive repairs could be made and to every student's advantage. We claim that it is the duty of the Corporation to provide better means of egress from our dormitories in case of fire. Were a first class fire to break out to-morrow with great loss of life and property, every one would be clamorous for better protection, or, to use a homely proverb, the barn would be locked after the home was stolen. There is nothing in the nature of things why we are not just as liable to a fire as any other collection of large buildings occupied by tenants, and why a fire catching near the stairs and getting a good headway would not cause a repetition of those sickening scenes becoming so familiar to every newspaper reader. We have little faith in the efficacy of the legendary Bab-cock Extinguisher at any hour in the night in the proctor's room at another part of the building; we even doubt if the new fire-ladders would be on hand promptly, not to say well managed; and the leisurely way the Cambridge Fire Department proceeds to a fire inspires us with no confidence. So, as far as we can see, the alternative for a man in the top story of Weld, Matthews, or Thayer, with the firemen below him, would be to jump or burn, while a flexible or stationary iron ladder attached to the outside of the Hall, at the time would save his life, and satisfy now the apprehensions of a few alarmists, if such we must be called.