Communication.

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To the Editors of the Crimson:

The petition to have the Reading-room of the College Library open on Sunday evenings instead of on Sunday afternoons was signed by 159 names, while 69 men signed a paper stating their preference for the afternoon hours. Both papers were transmitted to the Corporation, but no action has been taken and none is likely to be taken this year.

The fact that while the Library is open in the afternoon books may be called for from the stack and that officers of the University may have access to the stack as on week-days, makes it undesirable to discontinue the afternoon hours. In the evening the stack and the books in it are inaccessible, so that Sunday evening opening, if ever adopted, will be in addition to, not in place of, the afternoon hours.

The average use of the Library during the first eighteen Sundays of last year was 164; during the corresponding Sundays of this year, 132 1-2. The falling off was due, no doubt, to the opening of the Harvard Union. On the average 32 volumes are called for from the stack each Sunday afternoon. WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian.