A Timely Suggestion

In a few days the streets of yonr good city will bo lined witli students, in search of rooms in wLich to pass tlio Winter ; and bcfore the time comes we wiah to make x reapect-t'ul sultgesüou to the citiiens, iu behalf of both studeuts and citizens. We are impelled to make oiir suggastion by thf keen remembrance of the many weary days during which we, a forlorn strangen tramped the streels of A'na Arbur, in qaest of an Etbiding place, gazing anxiously at tho liouses to seo whether the sbutters wer closed, and the chambers hail the ontside appearance of being deserted. Ever and anou we would perciev a house where tlie prospect seemed good, and would inarcü nervously up to tho door and tremblingly pull thebell, Uien stand perbaps ten or fifteen minutes, shivering with cold and quaking with fear, lest the individual wbom we could hear makina;preparatiuns to come to the door, should bring along a ! massive bludgeon or a vast buil dog, to drive i us ofl', in their indignation against us for being tbe several hundredtb student wbo had applted at their habitation for a room. And, though, (to the honor of the Ann Arborites be t said,) we never met wilh any worse treatment than a short answer and a look of scorn, upon making our modest wishes kuown. e eau assure you tliat by the time we had been repulsed from the hun d red and forty-seventh house, (t was late in the Fall wlieu wo came,) we began to feel vry bad indeed, if not worse. We relate our humblo oxperience, 31r. Editor; not as a solitary esarople, but aa a specimen of wliat a majority of the mullitude of students, wbo every Winter throng the classic halls of our noble University, are compelled to endure, confident that vrhen we make our sufl'erings known the excellent and christian inhabitants of Ann Arbor will do what they can for our relief. Wliat we would euggest Uien, isthis; that all those who are so fortúnate as tobave rooms to reut, shoujd hang out a " shingle " on eome conspicuous place about their house, wilh a notice on it to that effect, and take it down as soon as their rooms are let. Theo those who do not rent rooms wou:d not be offended by applications ; those wbose rooms were full would not have to run to the door every few minutes for several weeks to turn off more luckless applicants ; while those who still had rooms unoccupied would stand a much better chance of letting tliem satisfactorily, and the students would be beneflted beyond calculation. Perhaps objectors will say tliat we aro gratultous in our complaint, for surely Mrs. Takemein, and Mrs. Boardwell, and Mrs. Glubhouse, all stick up a notice of the faeilities of their respective establishments. in the Post Office or Steward's office or both. So they do, but hovv in the world are we poor benigbtcd strangers to find out where the dear, good, kind hrarted accommodating souls live ; we cannot do it. But, as almost all of us eau read, we would have no difficulty, if the notice ws put up on tbe place to which it refers ; and as toon as it becarr.e known tbat such was the cu9tom we would devote ourtelves to n diligent search for "shingles," inslead of wasting our energies in the vain effort to divine by the outside of the housea whether or not the insude contened unoeeupied rooms. We hare said our ay, we hope it vvill offeiid none, and if it should be the means of saviug a single individual fiom tha misery tliat we have endured, we will feel happy in the thought that ws have done soine good in our day and generatiou.