It has been customary in years past for many students who have made no definite arrangements for board to take their meals at Memorial until some other place is found. Consequently at the beginning of every year the hall is crowded by a number of merely transient boarders, while a large number of men who otherwise would remain permanently at the hall are unable to secure seats. The board of directors have endeavored, in a measure, to obviate this difficulty by requiring two weeks notice for withdrawal and granting no allowance for temporary absence until the first of November. Students should remember the crowded condition of the hall at the beginning of last year, and if it is their intention to remain there permanently, apply at once; but in justice to the large number who will seek later to gain admission, no one ought to secure a seat unless it is his intention to retain it during the year.