Inmates of the Yard dormitories are well aware of the fact that at midnight the gaslights in the hallways are extinguished. Whether this be the survival of a past age of early hours or the result of an economical administration is immaterial. Aside from the inconvenience incident to groping one's way through pitch darkness, these inky corridors involve the risk of headlong tumbles down staircases, and, in case of fire, absolute danger. To fully appreciate the significance of these conditions, it is necessary to attempt to make one's way after midnight from the top floor of Weld, Matthews, or Thayer to the basement.

The state of the Yard dormitories as far as the comfort of the men living in them is concerned, is hardly such as to justify the maintenance of a real and trying inconvenience that may be remedied at small expense. In view of the excellent spirit shown by the class of 1911 in the matter of Senior dormitories, it does not seem too much to expect the authorities to remedy the present unlighted conditions of the Yard halls after midnight.