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To the Editors of the CRIMSON.

Will you permit me to call attention in your columns to the carelessness of some students in not returning the property of others which comes by chance into their possession? The loss of what may seem to them a thing of little consequence may often mean great inconvenience to the owner, entirely incommensurate with the apparent material value of the article, or with the slight trouble of restoring it.

I am moved to write this by the loss, apparently final, of a note-book which was taken from Randall Hall last week, presumably by mistake. It contained not only valuable notes of my own, but also references belonging to Professor H. L. Smyth, which he used in connection with a course on mining methods. The failure to return the note-book is inexcusable, for it bore my name and address, and came into the hands of the present possessor through his own careless mistake. Yours very truly,   E. E. WHITE,   Assistant in Mining and Metallurgy.