WE are happy to see that others beside undergraduates have at length come to the conclusion that the load of mathematics under which Freshman classes have so long tottered should be considerably lessened. The Examining Committee have reported that Analytical Geometry is too difficult a study for that class, and that a further diminution of mathematics in the Freshman year would be advisable. The Committee also recommend that Junior Logic and Themes be introduced into the curriculum of the Freshman year, thus supplanting the for the most part painful and useless study of Triangles and Hyperbolae in favor of English studies which are indispensable to the education of even moderately informed persons. As required studies have been taken from the other classes, they have been imposed upon the all-suffering Freshmen, until with Mechanics and four branches of Mathematics their burden has become almost too much for the most enduring. Very many have been conditioned every year in studies which they could not master without help, and still more have been driven to the expensive alternative of tutoring. Thus the Freshmen, with the exception of the few mathematical minds among them, have been forced to go through an ordeal the only value of which has been the questionable moral training which suffering gives. The private tutors in Cambridge find pupils almost solely in the Freshman class, and very rarely in any subject but Mathematics. It is evident that no study should be required in College which a large number cannot master without other instruction than is afforded by the College. Again, the prices which tutors ask are so high that none but the more wealthy students can afford to patronize them. There are such urgent reasons that the advice of the Visiting Committee be acted upon by the Faculty, that we earnestly hope that a change for the better will be seen next year.