The assignment of college rooms has taken place, and now there are, presumably, many undergraduates who are bitterly moaning their fate in being obliged to remain outside of the college buildings during their entire course. It seems doubly hard to fail to draw a room when the unfortunate applicant sees the long list of lucky sub freshmen who have been more fortunate than he. It is a fact that out of ninety six assignments of rooms, prospective members of the class of '90 drew forty-six. It seems to us that a system which allows nearly one-half of the rooms to be given to sub-freshmen is egregiously unfair to those who are already members of the university. The great expense and the inconvenience of rooms outside of the yard, are borne by a constantly increasing number of undergraduates, and the special pleasure of college life, which consists to a great extent in living in the midst of companions of one's own age and tastes, is denied in a great measure to these same men. Of course, as long as Harvard is too poor to build another dormitory, some one must suffer, but we think it only just to give upper classmen the preference over sub-freshmen, by limiting the number of rooms for which sub-freshmen may apply.