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The suggestion of a correspondent in our yesterday's issue deserves to be taken up by the Library authorities. It is certainly a good thing, since some men are so careless about their eyes, to stop all reading in the Library on these winter afternoons, before twilight sets in; but the reason is not so obvious why the drawing of books should be also stopped. As regards the reserved books, this early closing of the Library is a decidedly bad thing. As matters stand, men who have laboratory courses or double-hour recitations from two to four, can not draw reserved books at all. Those, too, who have consecutive recitations at the Museum or Jefferson, can not get books, unless they make themselves late at their second recitation. If they go to the Library they must lose the first part of their lecture. Nor does the inconvenience end with themselves. By the delay they cause to the lecture through their late arrival in the classroom, they trespass on the rights of the rest of the class. We recommend to the Library Council, then, that they close the Reading room of the Library before sunset to readers only. Let any one get access to the reserved books, to draw them, until a quarter after four.

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