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To the Editors of the Crimson:

The object of the new regulations respecting the Yard rooms is a praise-worthy one. Almost every one is agreed that undergraduates in the College and the Scientific School ought to be allowed the advantage of student life in the Yard in preference to the older men in the graduate schools.

But there are some features to the new regulations which seem not only valueless for the object sought, but unfair to a large class of undergraduates. For instance, the rule says: "A student on leave of absence from the College or the Scientific School, and doing work in some other department, is not an undergraduate within the meaning of the rule."

There is an increasing number of students every year who finish their college work in three years. Many of those prefer to wait a year and graduate with their own class. They take their first year in the Law School or some other graduate department. Yet they, if they have previously had a room in the Yard will be forced to give it up at the time when they would most value it: namely their own Class Day. If they have never had a Yard room, they are now debarred from one during their Senior year, when the associations of life in the Yard would mean most to them.

I know of five men in one entry of one of the Yard buildings who are Juniors this year, intending to finish their college work this year and go to the Law School next year. At least four of them wished a Yard room solely because of the opportunity it would give them Class Day. It is now too late for them to be transferred to the Senior Class even did they wish to change. Yet these men are to be driven from their rooms during their Senior year, for the benefit of some men now possibly sub-Freshmen.

It seems to me that this feature of the new regulations imposes an unwarranted hardship upon one class of undergraduates who certainly are entitled to consideration. They will certainly be undergraduates in their Senior year. They are merely pursuing the course advocated by President Eliot, in doing their seven years work in six years. Having no idea that such a rule would be imposed upon them when it was too late to change from 1904 to 1903, they have remained in their own class. And now by a rule almost retroactive in its effect upon them, they are to be excluded from the Yard in what is naturally the most pleasant year of undergraduate life. JUNIOR.