HELLO CENTRAL

It has been repeatedly suggested in these columns that some convenient form of telephone service be installed in the Houses. For those who object to paying for a private installation the system used in Randolph Hall is ideal. There every study is fitted with a telephone, which operates from a private exchange for the building. The only charge to the occupants of the suites is a five cent toll on each outside call which they make. Calls originating outside, or wholly within the building, are free. Since all the rooms in the Houses are already wired for telephones, there should be no serious objection to equipping every House as Randolph is equipped.

The alternative to this plan is to put a pay telephone in each entry. Many entries of the old Freshman Dormitories are thus fitted, and the plan works very well. It is open to the serious criticism of course, that it is a great burden to the man living nearest the telephone, upon whom all the burden of answering, incoming calls is laid.

However trivial the matter of providing convenient communication may be to the individual, in the aggregate it presents a serious need. Providing telephones is not only a matter of profit to the telephone company, or of convenience to the loquacious. It is a wise provision for emergencies which demand immediate relief.