Boylston Hall has long ceased to answer the demands of the Chemical Laboratory and the department has been for a long time desirous for a new building where it could have larger and better lecture rooms and increased facilities for laboratory work. The building was repaired with great care not long ago, but yet the laboratory, though every available foot has been put to use, compairs unfavorably with similar buildings in other places. The large lecture room, moreover, has this year been used for English A and the gallery in the room has lately been enlarged to accommodate the horde of men in that course. While the few lectures held there in the course probably do not greatly inconvenience the department. It is unfortunate that an encroachment by other departments is thus begun on the building. It cannot, perhaps, be avoided at present; we need lecture halls with better accommodations for such large courses. Doubtless there are other and more important demands to be answered - the new library and reading room, even better accommodations for the officers of the University, and, above all, more dormitories, - for it is a little absurd to offer students increased facilities for work till we have more places to house them in, - but there is a great need here for a new laboratory building.

THE ventilation in Memorial Hall during dining hours is often bad and the atmosphere toward the end of the hours generally grows so close and hot that it is very uncomfortable for hose dining there. It has been found impracticable to open many of the upper windows because the draft causes the gas to flare in such a fashion that the walls are in danger of being considerably blackened. We understand that the Board of Directors are making efforts to remedy this trouble and we trust that they will be able to do so, and that in short time, for it is a serious discomfort to members of the hall.