The unfairness of the system of allotment of college rooms is growing with every year. The larger the number of applicants, the smaller the chance of getting a room. This truth is unavoidable but the additional unfairness of giving the subfreshmen equal chances with the senior can and ought to be avoided. It is also too evident to need statement that a man who has been in college two or three years has a weightier claim to getting into a college building than the man who just comes here. It would be a very simple matter to arrange a plan by which preference would be given to seniority in college standing, so that the bursar's hat would become less like the well into which like the daughters of Danae, a man pours his lot as freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors without ever seeing the accomplishment of his wish.
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