Last year, it will be remembered, the CRIMSON made a careful canvas of both the instructors and students in order to ascertain as far as possible the opinion of the university regarding the advisability of having our library lighted during the evening. The post-cards returned to us, to the number of about twelve hundred, together with a petition were sent to the corporation, and in reply we were informed that although it was highly desirable that the improvement requested should be made there was at that time no money available for the purpose. The answer given was of course sincere, and there seemed, therefore, nothing to do but to submit to the inevitable. Now that another college year has opened, however, it is fitting that the question should again be agitated. The advantages of the desired improvement are too obvious to need even enumeration. its effects could not fail to be beneficial to all concerned, and of course the only possible drawback to the project would be the lack of money for its success. And yet it does seem almost a disgrace that such an obstacle should be so powerful. There certainly is no improvement needed half so much as the one for which we now ask. Our president himself has already called careful attention to the subject in his last annual report; and still there is no response even to his appeal. Where the fault lies we do not know. The matter one of those in which the students themselves are virtually powerless. But wherever the power is vested it ought to be used. As long, certainly, as we are deprived of the fullest posible privileges of our library, we are parially rebbod of those, high education advantages which Harvard aims so proudly. Our faculty we feel assured have befriended our request-and the corporation last year certainly gave the question a careful consideration. It is just possible, however, that the excuse which they then urged with reason has lost its weight today. If so, we appeal directly to them. If not the matter must be left to the graduates for decision.