EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :- There are but four or five libraries in this country which contain a larger number of books or have better facilities for getting at them than the one connected with this college. Nevertheless I have heard the same complaint repeated again and again that, though the above be true, the general usefulness of the library is seriously hampered by the fact that all the reading done in the library must be during the day time. It is a lamentable fact that from some petty fear of a fire breaking out and destroying the magnificent collection of books, the college authorities have neglected doing anything toward lighting the library during the night. The argument of fire might have had some force during the days when gas was the sole means of illuminating public buildings, but since the introduction of electricity, which has now become superior to gas, the argument falls to the ground. As the case stands now, the only time a student can use the reference books in the library is in the morning, when his hours are generally taken up by recitatations, and in the afternoons when either laboratory work or the thousand and one things a person finds it more pleasant to do on a bright fall afternoon than pouring over a lot of musty books, prevents him from using the library as much as he ought, and as much as he would like to do. Pangs of regret are constantly shooting up in men who use the library but little, and it is in vain that they say to themselves evenings when they have nothing to do, "Oh, if the library were only open now I should use it." Fully one quarter of the service which could be given to students by the library is absolutely destroyed by the obstinacy and stubborness of the college authorities. Financial considerations certainly cannot stand in the way, as the recent bequests to the library have placed it in their power to put in the electric light. Will the faculty pursue their old tactics of the "day-time is good enough for us, and therefore is good enough for you;" or will they have the best interests of the students so near them that the old abuses will be remedied and the library be made a place where it can be used by every student voluntarily instead of grudgingly?

INQUIRER.