'66, 132 40 weeks, 130-280 279-430

'69, 215 av. 38 weeks, 152-304 349-572

'72, 215 av. 38 weeks, 152-304 353-581

'75, 180-250 38 weeks, 152-304 352-579

Although the table shows that necessary expenses have been doubled in the last fifteen years, while the term has been shortened, the writer assures us that this is not due to extravagance. It is shown that the average total expense of each member of the class of '76 per year was $1.075, while the average man in '60 spent about $560 a year. Then follows a statement that we fail to understand:

"Compared with the catalogue estimates of necessary expenses, it certainly costs no more to go through college now than it did sixteen years ago."

Possibly it costs no more in college now than it did in '60, but the figures certainly show that more is spent now than was spent then. But this point may be cleared up, for more articles on the same subject are to follow. The subject is one of interest, and these investigations have a decided value.

WE are anxious about the reputation of our poets. The Yale Courant quotes a few lines from the Oberlin Review, and then says: "Yet even this gem will have to yield the palm to 'A Comparison,' by A. D. F., in the Amherst Student." If A. D. F. can write a few more such morceaux the Harvard poets will have to look after their laurels. This morceau we give in full:-

A Comparison."I love to watch from Holyoke's noble height.

'Neath softly glowing skies, as daylight wanes,

The gentle beauty of the Hampshire plains

Bathed in a melting flood of sunset light, -

They breathe such sweet content. And yet the sight