We trust that no member of the University who lives within the limits of Old Cambridge will let the day pass without subscribing his name in support of so worthy an object as that of the improvement of the post office. The needs of the office are so plain that no comment of ours should be required to convince any one of the necessity for immediate action on the part of the authorities at Washington. The question which will probably come to the minds of most men will probably be as to just why members of the University should concern themselves with something in which, as they think, the citizens of Cambridge should naturally be more interested. The reason, as has been pointed out in another column, is that the University, besides including a large proportion of the patrons of the post office, makes large demands upon it which are out of proportion to the actual number of persons enrolled. The University includes among its officers, some of the most influential citizens of Cambridge. There is good ground for hoping that an appeal endorsed by them and well supported by the student body would have some effect when all previous efforts have been practically useless.

The most crying evil in the present quarters of the post office is the lack of due provision for the comfort of the employes. It would seem that bare considerations of humanity would have forced some action from the authorities long ago. As it is, the health of the employes has suffered perceptibly, and there have been two deaths among them within a year, whether from this, or other causes.

We mention these facts because they are serious enough to require immediate remedy from some source or other. There is a good chance that this remedy may lie with the University.