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The circulars signed by Professor Peabody which has recently been sent to a large number of students, including all the senior class, represent an effort to put into effect an idea which has occurred independently to many members of the University. Many senior have pieces of furniture which they do not care to take away with them, and which if sold, would bring nothing like their real value as measured by their capacity to do service in a student's room. A plan has been carefully arranged by which such articles can be loaned on proper terms to students who would otherwise have to buy. The plan is not a promiscuous charity, but simply a design for getting the greatest possible use out of furniture without allowing to a second-hand dealer a series of liberal commissions. The necessary expenses of life in college are nowadays so great that any means of reducing them is a matter of great importance for the University. A similar plan has been arranged for a Loan Library of text-books. Almost everybody has a shelf full of old text-books of which he would be glad to make any disposition that might be useful to some one; and we understand that text-books of any sort are most earnestly desired. It is not too much to ask that every student, in leaving his room for the vacation, should consider whether he has not some piece of furniture and some books which he can contribute to this very worthy purpose.