Editors Daily Crimson:

The recent action of the library authorities in refusing to permit the use of the dictionaries to students who desire to study in the reading rooms is a very strange one in view of the fact that there is no place provided by the-college where we can procure lexicons for study.

Many men who do not live in the college buildings have been accustomed to spend the hours between their recitations in the library, and now they cannot study any language there unless they bring their dictionaries with them.

Many students cannot afford to purchase the larger dictionaries and as they desire to avail themselves of the greater advantages for study which these works offer, they naturally go to the library to use them. But now one cannot use a Lexicon unless he stands before a rack and holds his books while he studies and meantime he is keeping numerous others waiting.

Now what is the object of having these books in the library if it is not for students to use? It was a common sight last year to see twenty-five or thirty men using the dictionaries and there is no plausible reason why such men should not be accommodated.

Surely the donors of these books intended them for the students' use and it is only the duty of the library authorities to grant us this privilege rather than to put the books away to mould, leaving but one dictionary on the reference shelves.