Yesterday afternoon at four-fifteen precisely, the library was closed, and the students were precluded from enjoying its privileges during a third of the working hours of the day except in so far as they had been able to avail themselves of the reserve book system. This closing of the library at such early hours will of course continue until the days are considerably lengthened, and even then, as now, the building will be shut during the entire evening. Even a moment's reflection will be enough to convince any fair-minded man of the injustice of such a state of affairs in a university of the size and pretentions of Harvard. It is detrimental to the students in more than one way for it encourages idleness among them at the same time that it deprives them of that which is their due. In the past the reserved book privilege has been pointed out as an answer to our requests, but the reseryed book privilege is far from being a full substitute for the right withheld. Suppose, for example, that a student is very desirious of taking out a reference book, but is unable to be at the library at the proper time; it is more likely than not that he will be forced to waive his wish, and this is but one of a long series of equally plausible suppositions. Then, too, the desire to use reserved books is very considerably lessened under the present system. With a good degree of justice students are unwilling to assume the responsibility of them, particularly when they desire to consult several different works at a time, or when the urgency of the need is small compared to the trouble which would be necessary to satisfy it. Thus there can be no doubt that much more intellectual work would be done were our library lighted during the evening. As it is now we are deprived of what we want and even of what we deserve and need.

There are twenty-four state universities in the United States.

The cap and gown are now compulsory Sunday garments at Lehigh University.

A special drawing-room car train of seven coaches will be run from New York to Springfield for the Yale-Harvard game.

During the foot-ball season Phillips Andover scored 136 points against her opponents' 107. Nine games were played, of which Andover won five.

Graves who played halfback on the Yale team last year will begin playing fullback next week. He has been laid up the greater part of the season so far.

The Wesleyan-Lehigh foot-ball game which was to have been played on Nov. 23rd, has been postponed in order that the men may be able to witness the Yale-Harvard game at Springfield.

According to the last report of the educational bureau there are 361 colleges for men in the United States, having 43,474 students, and 15 colleges for women with 20,772 students.