The facts published in another column concerning the growth and development of the library during the past year must be highly gratifying to all friends of the University. It is certainly a subject for congratulation that this one of the most important departments of the University is so ably managed. Complaints against the system and methods in vogue at the library are rarely heard; everything there moves smoothly and satisfactorily. The library certainly does its part in fulfilling the objects which the broader interests of the University are continually demanding. The development of the system of classroom and departmental libraries is especially interesting. The best and most fruitful work done at the University is done in these libraries, and it is hard to understand how we ever got along without them. It is perfectly easy to see, however, that they are the natural outgrowth of the method of teaching here. In the teaching of every department, the library has been made the central fact about which everything else revolves. To do good work, to make any headway at all in most courses, the student must have recourse to the libraries. The class-room and departmental libraries collect just the books needed by a student in a particular class of courses and enable him to get at them with greater convenience. Their popularity has been perfectly evident from the beginning, and they are now an established feature of our library system.

The H. A. A. closes the hare and bounds, season today with a cross-country run for the championship of the University. The success of the hare and hounds runs this year has certainly been remarkable. It is due partly, no doubt, to the splendid open weather which we have had all fall; but it is due most to the live interest which most of the good distance runners have taken in the runs. The H. A. A. is certainly to be congratulated upon this success, for it promises for the future. The results of this fall's work will certainly be apparent before the end of the college year; some excellent material has been developed by the hare and hounds runs.