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To the Editors of the Crimson:

Would you be so kind as to print the following:

The barring out from Yard rooms for Senior year of those men taking their fourth undergraduate year in one of the graduate schools has certainly been "sprung on us suddenly."

The undergraduates, who agitated for reform a year ago, wished to keep graduates out of the Yard, but had not the slightest idea of keeping out any undergraduates. Even when the new rules regulating the assignment of Yard rooms were announced, on December 5th, no one supposed that an interpretation of the term "undergraduate," that would bar Seniors, at the same time first year men in a graduate school, from Yard rooms, would be made. At that time, the CRIMSON in its editorial upon the subject said, "there may be some question as to whether a Senior who is also in a graduate school may retain a Yard room occupied in his Junior year. The wording of the rule makes it seem probable that he may keep the room, as such men are understood to retain their undergraduate standing even if they are doing work in the Law School or some other graduate department." So the interpretation presented yesterday in Mr. Mason's letter was unexpected.

Now it seems very unfair to Juniors who wish to take next year in a graduate school that they should be suddenly informed that they must get out of the rooms which they engaged with the tacit understanding that they might live in them through their own Class Day and Commencement. I, myself, would never have taken a Yard room last spring if I had thought I would be forced out of it before I graduated. And so with others.

It seems only just that the enforcement of this particular rule be postponed one or more years, or that all undergraduates now in Yard rooms be allowed to hold them until their actual graduation. JUNIOR.

January 7, 1903.