The problem of getting rooms in the yard becomes more and more difficult every year. The incoming freshman classes are steadily increasing, while each year, the number of vacant rooms in the college buildings shows a corresponding decrease. In the table printed on another page, statistics will be found bearing on this question, by which it will be seen that there has been, for the past ten years, a steady decrease in the number of freshmen rooming in the yard, only broken by the erection of a new building, or the graduation of a very large class; and that whereas in 1874,60 per cent of the freshmen roomed in the yard, but 38 per cent. room there today The reason for this is, we think, the increasing eagerness with which any room in a college building is sought for. It is not an uncommon thing for a man to keep a room during his entire course, and for him then to hand it down to a friend as a precious legacy. The friend. In turn, leaves it to his friend, who also bequeaths it to a third. Under these circumstances, the freshman has very little latitude in making his choice, he must take what his elders leave him, or go without. Let us hope, therefore, that some other millionaire graduate will remedy this sad state of affairs by building a new and roomy dormitory, which shall perpetuate his name, and save the race of Freshmen from total banishment from the magic circle.