For nearly half of the academic year the members of the University have been entirely deprived of the use of the Gymnasium and seriously restricted in the use of the Library. That these two important departments are now to be opened with vastly better equipments than ever before does much to make up for the extreme annoyance which the long delayed construction has caused. The opening of the reading room in the evening and the consequent restriction of reserved books to use in the Library, is a change which will be thoroughly appreciated and which will greatly increase the usefulness of the Library in the University. While the inability of the Corporation to give the Library accommodations proportioned to its needs and worthy of its position among the great libraries of the world is very much to be regretted, the wise use of all the means that have been available is a cause for congratulation.