"Action Should Be Taken"

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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The editorials that I have noticed in recent numbers of the CRIMSON concerning the opening of the scientific laboratories for evening work have greatly impressed me as to their appropriateness. I have many times felt that some such action should be taken by the authorities in charge, and I feel certain that the men taking courses involving laboratory work will heartily second any effort in this direction.

For my own part, I have many times had to realize how much of a handicap afternoon "labs" can be if one wants to enter any athletics or use the afternoon for any particular purpose. Furthermore, a person, under the present system, can be in the middle of a difficult chemistry experiment that has required much careful preparation, only to be told at five o'clock that he must leave and within about a five minute margin.

This state of affairs makes one hope that some adequate solution of the difficulties can be devised such as has been previously suggested in your columns. G. M. Phelps '31.