EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The notification in regard to room assignments, which has just been distributed with the spring bills, brings up again the old discussion in regard to getting into the yard. I am not starting the debate anew for selfish reasons. My case is hopeless, for I am a senior. Four long and weary years I have waited at the very gates of this paradise, but the fates and this pernicious system of distribution have been against me. I shall never room in the yard.

But I write this in behalf of my younger brother, Rob, who will enter with the class of '97. He must have a room in the yard, even if I have to endow the University with a new dormitory to get it.

There is no need of enumerating the painful details of the system. They are known too well. I wish, instead, to petition the CRIMSON to start a public agitation against the system. The power of the CRIMSON and its influence were manifested in the results of the prayer petition. Use, then, this mighty engine for the good of the armies of Harvard men still to come.

The powers that be know that a room in the yard is a Harvard man's greatest prize, the value of which increases in geometrical ratio as his years in college advance. Is it fair, then, that every one of the four hundred boarding-school boys in various parts of the United States who are intending to come to Harvard next year, but who have absolutely no connection with college, many of whom never will be here or will be plucked in the examinations, should have an equal chance at the limited number of rooms available, with fellows who have been here two and three years, have their friends and interests centred here, who will have, perhaps, only one other chance? Is it fair, even, that the man of one year's standing in the college should stand on equal ground with the veterans of many examinations?

Just because the rooms are few in number the oldest classmen should have the first right to them. In the old days, a Harvard senior could not graduate with a clear conscience unless he had roomed in Holworthy. Nowadays, he is lucky if his last hours are spent within sight of the old pile! Will you kindly ask the parietal committee, or whoever has our welfare in charge, to institute some graded system, by which the classes should draw for rooms in order of their seniority. What is left after they have what they want, could go to the sub-freshmen. These boys have four years of chances before them, and can afford to wait.

UNHAPPY SENIOR.