We hail the news that at last, after so much weary waiting, the students of Harvard University are to be removed ex tenebris and introduced into the light of knowledge with keen delight. In fancy we see the pointed windows of Gore Hall pouring forth a flood of cheerful light over the snowbound wastes leading to Harvard street on one hand and to Sever Hall on the other.

How the old books will wonder and rejoice when they need no longer pass the long nights in darkness, such as Egypt and Cambridge alone have ever brought forth!. They will almost burst their musty bindings in sending forth a mighty sigh of relief and of gladness. And the students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have had double the time to go into it.

But talking seriously, after this uncontrollable mirth which the glad intelligence aroused in us, we must welcome this great improvement with the heartiest approval. It is only natural that Harvard could not for a great while longer show her face in the academic world while she had some 290,000 volumes stored away, inaccessible to everybody, as soon as the sun chose to set.

Now that we can feel sure of having light in the library. we may express our great surprise that it took the college authorities so long to make up their minds to such an important step. All those who aided in this good work and especially those who contributed the great sine qua non deserve the warrant thanks of every man who has the welfare of the University at heart.