BRYANT HALL

The old Dunster bookshop has been replaced by Bryant Hall, and the "backyard" of Kirkland House is now complete. The completion of the House, however, has resulted in the overcrowding of the library; the forty-odd extra members now occupying the annex drift into the seat of meditation in Hicks House in the natural course of events, and its rooms, formerly comfortable, are now too well filled.

The Hicks House library consists of seven rooms devoted to study, and a first floor room for the stacks. To allow for the increase in House membership, the stacks could be moved to the basement, and the room where they now are might be refurnished as a study, the whole being done at an expense insignificant in comparison to the resultant advantages. The library, of course, is at once one of the most popular and one of the most useful of House adjuncts; further, no conceivable region is less suited to crowding than a library; if Bryant Hall was added without the requisite foresight, the mistake should be rectified at once.