WE were sorry to see, on the recently published list of college rooms, the announcement that "all persons taking rooms in Holyoke House or Matthews will be required, if they employ any one, to employ the janitor of the building to make fires, etc." Any measure, which like this cuts off all competition, makes the price we have to pay too high, or, which is the same thing, the article which we pay for inferior to what it otherwise would be. At Sever's we are charged an extortionate price for our text-books, because the College destroys all competition by letting him alone know beforehand the text-books to be used. Now, it is proposed to establish a monopoly in the College buildings, the result of which will be that those who have rooms in Matthews or Holyoke will have inferior service, because the scout - we mean janitor - will have no fear of being discharged if he does not quite suit his employers. Apart from the manifest disadvantages of this particular measure, the College should never authorize a monopoly, by putting a man into some office, and commanding the students to patronize him or no one.