It is a painful fact to acknowledge, but one which nevertheless must be brought to notice, that petty thefts in the gymnasium are becoming more and more numerous. Complaints come in constantly from one quarter or another that a hat, or a coat, or small sums of money, have been missed by some unsuspicious owner who did not take the precaution to stow away his property in a locker. Every now and then some one is caught in the act of appropriating-even from a closed locker-what does not belong to him, and the summary measures which are taken with the delinquent for a time serve as a warning to others of the same kin. It would be impossible to believe that such a state of affairs could exist in this college were not the fact too well demonstrated in two or three cases during the past year. If the inherent dignity and honor of a man does not prove a barrier to all such acts, some watch should be kept in the gymnasium which would do so.

There is another source of annoyance, happily of an entirely different nature and of much less importance than the above, to those who frequent the gymnasium. It is the way some men have who, either forgetting to bring their own towels with them, take those belonging others; or who mistake their own property for somebody else's which closely resembles it. These evils are small in themselves, but by a little more self-control on the one hand, or more care on the other, these disagreeable consequences may be easily avoided.