We were surprised to hear not lony ago of a man who said he had not taken a single book from the library during the whole four years of his college course. It is a confession that ought to shame a man, and we wonder that anyone should care to make it. The library is without doubt the most useful and valuable institution connected with the University. It is one of the two or three largest libraries in the country. That a student should go through college without once drawing books from it, it indeed surprising. Nothing can be easier than using the library, with such a complete and convenient catalogue and such a simple method of drawing books. The library might do half the educational work of the college if the students only gave it a proper appreciation. Everybody should do some reading; and if it be good, the more the better. He who does not read is rightly termed narrow minded. Freshmen in particular are likely to put off their initiation into the awfully complicated net-work of procedure at the library, and too often this delay extends through the sophomore and junior years, and as we have seen is not unbroken in the Senior year. This ought not to be. One of the first things a man, who wants to make as much of the advantages of college life as possible, should do, is to make his way into the library and acquaint himself with all the necessary particulars of its management. The man who fails to do this cheats himself not only out of the small amount charged on his term bills "for use of the library," but out of one of the greatest privileges that his college has to offer him.