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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Last evening I inquired for a book from the attendant at the Union Library, and was told that the book sought was one among forty-nine others which had been stolen from the library this year. It seems difficult to believe that these thefts are the acts of Harvard men--but the attendants have all along assured us that such is the fact. Taking this as true, may I suggest what seems a practical remedy. At present the attendant--Presumably the care-taker of the books,--has his desk at the extreme end of the south room, at which point his view of the exit is cut off by intervening partitions and book shelves. Why not move the attendant's desk to the large open space just in front of the exit? This, the mathematical centre of the library, is the logical and convenient place for the custodian, and from it he would have no difficulty in keeping a sharp lookout for smugglers. A notice or two in the library to the effect that members are requested not to take books to other parts of the building, which is at present the rule, would justify his interrupting and questioning any "apparent borrower." GILBERT BETTMAN 2L.