The announcement that the Corporation is taking steps to carry out the plans for building the proposed Infirmary will be read with pleasure. The need of a college hospital, which should furnish at as low cost as possible, proper medical attendance, careful nursing and appetizing food to all students who might be sick has been sorely felt for a number of years. At present a student whose home is not near Cambridge, if taken ill, has either to stay in his room or go to the Cambridge Hospital. A great many students can ill afford to go to the Hospital during a long sickness. But the plight of one who is ill in his own room is no better. It is hard to get proper attention and nursing and impossible to get nourishing and appetizing food.

The question of how to make the charges as reasonable as possible and to make the Infirmary self-supporting is troubling the Corporation. Three ways in which its running expenses might be defrayed by the students are given in another column. The first plan, that of assessing each member of the University resident in Cambridge one dollar a year and a dollar a day for each day's residence in the Infirmary above five days, would put the expense upon those who use the hospital more surely than the other plans. The third plan, that of assessing each student living in Cambridge five dollars annually is favored by those who have the project in charge. It would be a much surer way of meeting the large running expenses than either of the others, and the plans can not be carried on without assurance that the Infirmary will be self-supporting.

Any one of the three plans would give the students the much needed hospital service at very reasonable cost. Which of them the students themselves favor the projectors of the Infirmary wish to find out. The CRIMSON, therefore, invites communications on the subject.