Although in winter the yard, and especially the trees covered with snow, never looked prettier than yesterday and the day before, yet we know very well that this snow will not last and that we are in the midst of another thaw and its consequent evils. Nature has separated the quiet city of Cambridge and the raging and restive Ohioby many miles. Nevertheless we are threatened with considerable danger when the next thaw sets in, which probably will be immediately. Every one knows what the danger is here, continual rivulets throughout the yard through which all have to wade and a likelihood that severe colds will be the result. It is perhaps too late for any permanent remedy to be made this year, but during the coming summer some radical changes in the system of drainage should be effected so that the season of 1884-5 may see the yard in a little better condition after any rain or thaw. This subject is a wearisome one but the desired object can only be obtained by showing the authorities how much the students object to these too frequent wettings.