We have heard numerous complaints from members of the freshman class about the wretched state of the air in Sever 11 during the lectures in Rhetorics. The instructor has often informed the class that on account of the heaviness of the air he found it impossible to continue his lecture to the end of the hour. This is an evil from whose effects we all have suffered, and it would be gratifying to see the college do something, or pretend to do something to remedy it. The lecture rooms in the old hall of the University of Berlin are even worse than those in Sever in this regard, but the corporation occasionally relieve the student's agony by sending in an expert air-tester, who gathers in some atmosphere, and after testing it posts an analysis of its deadly qualities, not that any remedy is applied, but this simply removes the tension on the student's nerves.

We hope to learn that the college authorities will do something similar one of these days; or might they not eventually make up their mind to place transoms over the doors of all the rooms in Sever?