With the steady, rapid growth of the College, and the consequent increase in the business to be transacted in the College offices, the inadequacy of the latter is yearly becoming more painfully evident. The small size of the rooms and their unsatisfactory equipment are far from suggesting the great importance of the work done by the Dean, the Secretary and the Recorder, while ignoring the difficulties which attend the performance of that work. In the case of the Recorder, for instance, it seems very unfair that the necessary annoyances of his position should be aggravated by any lack of facilities for the execution of his duties. His office, which the Dean well terms a kind of gangway, offers wretched accommodations for himself and the subordinate clerks who aid him in the extensive and elaborate book-keeping, which is an essential part of his work. The case is similar, though perhaps not so bad, with the offices of the Dean and the Secretary. In all, the need of more space and more thorough equipment is so great as to be almost imperative.

Twice in his annual reports the Dean of the College has called attention to the inadequacy of the college offices, which, is fully recognized by the Overseers as well. The necessity for reducing expenses has hitherto stood in the way of the desired improvement, but we hope that it will not long continue to do so. The dignity of the college and the convenience of its administrative officers must soon be considered by a change of quarters or by a great enlargement of the present ones.