EDITORS DAILY CRIMSOND:-The old question is coming up again. Yes! It is the one about lighting the library. In all seriousness, why must the library be closed every day at sundown? The only danger of fire attending any attempt to light it can now be avoided by the use of the new illuminator, electricity. The expense of introducing this would, to be sure, be large; but the need for the improvement is certainly great enough to justify the college in an effort to raise the necessary means.

The necessity for an extension of the time during which the library is open is steadily growing with the growth of the college. The number of students in several of the courses, has already increased so in the last few years, that the old provisions of the library are no longer adequate to give all the members of those courses a chance to get at the reference books. One of the history courses has recognized the insufficiency of the present arrangements to meet the demand for reference books, by its purpose of issuing a pamphlet with condensed notes of the important facts to be learned. This is a makeshift that deprives the student of the very great beneficiary which is to be derived from individual research.

To meet increasing demand more books should be furnished, or more time given the student to use the books now in the library. During the winter months the library will close as early as half-past four, being open in all seven and a half hours. If it were kept open till eight or nine in the evening, there would be from three and a half to four and half hours added. This would increase the time, during which books would be accessible, by one-half. The additional hours also would come when many men do their hardest work, and when such access to the library would be much appreciated.

I will not attempt to enlarge on the needs for a change in the present regulation of closing the library at sunset. Most of the students have experienced the same inconveniences as myself. If some expression of the opinion of the whole college upon this subject could be made, the faculty might be induced to consider the matter favorable.

OWL.