THE last attempt of the Faculty to barricade the royal road to learning cannot be called either a successful or a well-advised movement. We have never loudly remonstrated against the changes which, by raising the standard, added to our labors. We have endeavored, during the year that is closing, to take as calm a view as possible of all the differences that have arisen between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys "the privilege of attending voluntary recitations" must obtain fifty per cent of the maximum mark on the work of each half-year, in each study. It is a rule, which, to persons outside, will seem reasonable enough, but which, in College, has caused much dissatisfaction to the best, as well as to the worst, of scholars. To point out, in detail, its evil effects, would take more space than we can give in this column. We only wish to say here, that we have made careful inquiries concerning the intended working of the law; that we have been told by one of the authorities that a man who had forty-nine per cent in one mid-year examination, even if he had eighty or a hundred in all other studies, would lose all his chance for a degree that year; and, finally, that the opinions upon the subject, expressed in an article which we print in another column, are the opinions of the Crimson.