EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The plan proposed by "M" in your issue of March 3rd, deserves especial commendation. The daily newspapers are becoming more and more important as historical agents. With articles that may become of historic value, however, are mingled many columns of trash that it is far better to overlook than to read. Yet in the long run, there is a great deal in our leading dailies that well repay careful reading, and preservation. At present these articles are buried in the ponderous, rarely opened volumes in the basement of the library. By the plan under consideration, all that is valuable in American and foreign papers can be collected, placed in a compact form, and properly indexed. All must realize the value of Poole's Index. The plan of "M" would in the end prove a still more valuable aid to many students in their daily work. To those who are doing original work in historical courses, and taking prominent parts in debating societies, this system would soon be invaluable.

In order to make it a success, however, it should not be left to private zeal. The work should be made a regular department of the library under the charge of an efficient head. Many students could be found, who would be only too glad to assist. Special papers could be assigned to each one interested, and the entire work thus systematized.

As at present we have no reading room at College, this plan would fill that vacancy. And it would do more than this, for it would discourage the aimless reading of anything and everything which is found in a newspaper and would render more possible a connected understanding of the public events about which every student should know something.

If the college authorities do not want to take hold of this plan in a business like way, the students, in some united capacity should start it at least. The many advantages of some such system are evident on the face. Let something be done to realize them. M. No. 2.