The rumor of a speculation in the way of a new hall for university students calls properly for some comment from the college press. The Advocate, in its last number, felt the need of some extra accommodations in view of the large classes of late years, and we join with it most heartily in urging such an outlay on the part of the college. The present rumor should only serve to hasten some official action in the same line and to deliver future class-men from the tyranny of boarding houses and outside establishments. With the present limited accommodations the freshman who succeeds in getting rooms in the yard may well deem himself fortunate; and the marvellous facility with which one is "left" in the spring lottery tends to make a man very timid about loosening his hold on his former quarters, however bad. As to the need of more dormitories in the yard, such a question seems beyond debate, and to such a demand as the present the college must not fail to reply in some way satisfactory to the mass of wandering boarders. But the point which we would most strongly emphasize, is the necessity of the future building being owned by such persons or corporations as labor in the interests of the students, so that the generations to come may feel that they are escaping the caprices of various women boarding-house keepers.