No time is so suitable for the remedy of an abuse as the present. It is with no ordinary reluctance that we return again to a subject, the discussion of which has been so long and painful to the whole college. The time is now come for a decisive agitation of the lighting of the library. While we do not feel called upon to enter into a consideration of the manner or method of accomplishing the long awaited improvement, we cannot see any other means of attaining success in the matter than by unanimous and determined action upon the part of the students. The approaching winter, with its promise of virtually opening the doors of Gore Hall, while the students are otherwise engaged, and of closing them before the students are disengaged, is well calculated to prove a dreary season, in more than one respect. It does not seem possible that any reasonable argument against the lighting of the library could be presented. While it is certain that no institution of learning on the continent possesses a library equal to that of Harvard, it is probable that no college library presents so few inducements to its patronage by the students, or is comparatively so little used as the library of our Alma Mater. While we hear ever louder and yet more loud the alarming cry that the students do not read are not using the library, do not enter the Hall even, the great underlying evil, which is the aggressive centre of the disastrous situation remains untouched. We cannot hope for success say by untiring, ceaseless and unsparing agitation. The library at present offers no inducements whatever to the students at large. It is only by an effort, usually, that a student can manage to spend an hour within its walls, and while the libraries of other colleges remain invitingly open during the evening hours of leisure, the library of Harvard University is closed, and as dark and silent as a tomb. Unsparing and vigorous should be the opposition of the students to this shameful and crying abuse, for it is only by a concerted action of the entire college that we can win our library from its present inability to meet the requirements of a college which boasts the name of Harvard.