For 13 years the Chemistry Department has shrugged and muttered, "Impossible," every time the perennial demand for evening lab periods has been raised. But now even Professor Baxter, head of the Department, admits that the long-suffering students have offered a practical plan. The petition of the Student Union Yard Questions Committee, which he has accepted for consideration, asks that the labs be opened without stockroom service only twice a week, though limiting the privilege to three courses. Many men are willing to pay five dollars a term for evening labs, though the committee frankly states that the University ought to foot the whole bill. In anticipation of the oft-used plea of lack of money, however, it has been able to scrape up a minimum guarantee of about $400, to be paid by the students if absolutely necessary.

When Professor Baxter carries out his promised investigation, he will find that several course assistants are enthusiastically in favor of this plan, and that 75 per cent of the men enrolled in these courses have signed the petition. This pressure group is prepared to stick to its guns, and has all the answers ready. The Department has always been opposed on principle to charging extra lab fees, which it would probably be forced to do because of its rigid budget. But, principle or no principle, the students are willing to pay for what they want, and are well organized and determined to get it. This is the first plea to receive more than an abrupt "No!" In no sense a whim, or mere nagging at the University, it is based on the fact that at present Chemistry concentrators are barred from practically all extra-curricular activities by time limitations. It's time they got a break.