OUR instructors, almost without exception, have favored us during the past week with preliminary remarks." We have been told that this or that elective is not for loafers; that whoever elects this course for a "soft thing" will find himself deceived; that this University has had "enough of culture and too much"; and from another source, that culture is the aim of a University education. The result of all this is, that we are in very nearly the same condition we were a week ago. In one respect we are changed. The leisure time that hung so heavily upon our hands is leisure time no more. Long lists of profound and valuable works have been given us, and reading sufficient to occupy the time of an industrious man for ten years at least has been furnished for the next nine months. Those who have taken courses in history or philosophy find that each instructor firmly believes that since one has taken his course he intends to neglect everything else and sacrifice his health in reading up for that particular elective. So it seems. We strongly suspect, however, that if the works of reference are carefully noted down and never referred to, all will still be as it should be. Good resolutions must not be frightened away by the appalling spectacle of the work laid out. Do it all if you cap, is our advice, but let no one work more than twenty-four hours a day.