| Show The occupation ot of the West Building by the preparatory and normal students will be the first step tow towards a separation separ separation tion of the preparatory department from the University proper Students of all grades now occupy the same buildings the same library and room reading-room and andare andare andare are subject to the same rules and regu reg regu- regu lations The senior is of necessity placed under the same discipline as the first year preparatory student and the latter passes constantly under the name University Student The facts are that a student must have done three years' years work in the Preparatory School before he ranks as a University student The work of these three years is of high school grade and the students must be subject to rules suitable le to a high school but it is evidently improper that college students should be subject to to the same rules This inconvenience is especially manifest in the library regula regula- Here strict rules have to lo be maintained for the ben benefit fit of a few stud students students stu stu- d dents who have just come in from the common schools and who have not yet learned how ow to use a library On this account the unfortunate college student has to be subject to four long years of such discipline as will tend to destroy the hope that he ever will be able to use privileges and not abuse them With the removal of the preparatory department to the West Bui Building ding and th the establishment of a suitable reading- reading room there may we not hope and nd even pray for the rearrangement of the main library |
