Is there any objection to our establishing a hot water bottle depot outside the Library? The new lockers in the Women's Common Room are quite inadequate when it is a case of bed-socks, mufflers, blankets and comforters. These, and these alone, enable us to endure the climatic conditions of the Library. We would suffer willingly the inconvenience of the cold to ourselves if it were not that our neighbours are constantly disturbed by the irritating sound of our teeth chattering. We feel, too, that purple is a most distressing colour; and the countenances opposite us in various shades of mauve give us the blues.

May we even suggest, in addition to the above, that we are supplied with proper heating arrangements? We have never yet experienced the warmth of the heaters, as we are forbidden to sit actually on them. Nor are we permitted to put our feet in or under them, nor yet, again, turn our chairs towards them. Frankly, dear "Spike," we shiver in spite of ourselves, and we find it quite impossible to pursue our studies further under such deplorable conditions.—Yet we remain. O "Spike,"