A PROTEST AGAINST BAD AIR.

Week in and week out we suffer in our unventilated recitation and lecture rooms. Periodically the CRIMSON protests, while our instructors, forced to choose between asphyxia or competition with clattering steam pipes, either choose the former, or, without consideration one way or the other, stubbornly disregard the first rules of hygiene. Where clear thinking is demanded, clear air is the last consideration.

Against one "Black Hole of Calcutta" we wish especially to protest--the chemistry lecture room in Boylston Hall. Lack of proper ventilation, combined with the action of chemicals, makes the atmosphere unendurable long before the hour has elapsed. The course that meets here is necessarily large, for it is required for further study in several departments. It is an initiation to the Medical School that should render its sufferers absolutely impervious to disease. Possibly with more stimulating and less drugging of the senses, Chemistry 1 would not distribute each year its high proportion of wretched marks.