THE College is to be congratulated on the legacy which has been left to it in the will of Mr. Walter Hastings of Boston. As far as we can ascertain the facts they are as follows: The whole of the property left by Mr. Hastings amounts to about $800,000; his wife and daughter are to receive during their lifetime $15,000 a year between them, or the income of $300,000. The other $500,000 are to accumulate, and on the death of the two ladies will go, with the remaining $300,000, to Harvard College. The money is left, too, without any restriction as to the way in which it is to be spent. By the time that the College receives this bequest it will probably amount to several million dollars, making it the most munificent bequest that has ever been left to it. Although we are not to enjoy any of the advantages of this gift ourselves, we are heartily glad to be able to look forward to a day in the future when Harvard College will not have to be penurious in its expenditures. If the College cannot have the advantage of any such legacy as this at present, it can at least make the most of the sources of income which it already possesses. Any one with the least capacity for business can see, by looking over the list of vacant rooms in college buildings, that this is not done now. The College loses over $7,000 this year by being unable to let rooms, $4,000 of this loss being in Thayer alone. Would it not be well for a college which pretends to be as poor as Harvard does to consider whether it would not make more money by letting rooms for a price which it can get than by keeping them vacant at a price which it cannot get? With the best interests of the College at heart, we are sincerely glad that these rooms are vacant, and hope that they will continue so as long as the present unjust and unwise policy of high prices is continued.