ROOMING PROBLEM SOLVED

All foot-sore room-seeking students who have spent the last seventy-two hours walking the streets of Cambridge and hounding the Brooks House Information Bureau in search of a suitable abode for the coming year can take on new hope! It was learned today that the college authorities were acquainted with the present situation just two hundred and seven years ago this fall, so something will undoubtedly be done at once to alleviate the difficulty.

The following is an excerpt, from a meeting of the Board of Overseers held November 15, 1717:

"The Numbers of ye Sons of ye Prophets are now so increased, that the Place where they were wont to dwell is become so Streight as not to be capable of receiving ym. There are Considerable Numbers especially that were admitted this Year, who are obliged to take Lodgings in ye Town; upon we not only they themselves complain of great Difficulties & Inconveniences, but ye Gentlemen yt have ye Govermt of ye Society do already feel great Concern in yr Minds & have but uncomfortable Views of Mischief impending; wch yr fear they shall not be able to avert; by reason of many being necessitated to be so much & so far from their Constant Inspection, & ye Slender Authority ye College is capable of onpecting from ye Town."