PROMPT ACTION OF WATER BOARD.

More than a passing word of gratitude is due the Metropolitan Water Board for the promptness and fairness with which it has compensated the Co-operative for damages caused by the bursting of a water main in Harvard square during the Christmas recess. It is of course true that the Co-operative Society had a legal right to compensation; but private claims against public authority are too often enforceable only by tedious and costly litigation; and it is a matter for congratulation that the Co-operative, in this adjustment, has had to deal with one of the most efficient and business-like administrative bodies in the Commonwealth. We should like to have the members of the Metropolitan Water Board know that the undergraduates appreciate this action.