THE views expressed in the letter upon the mid-year examinations which we print this week seem worthy of careful notice. The mere rumor that the examinations were to be crowded into a period much shorter than usual has created much excitement and called forth expressions of discontent. The fact is, the work to be done at that time is necessarily severe, for in the daily pressure of preparing recitations little time is found for reviews, and each student, however opposed to cramming, finds the few days before the examinations none too long for reviewing the half-year's work. The weeks prove anything but a vacation to most of us, and those favored ones who gain a little leisure towards the close of the examinations are envied by the less fortunate. More than this, two examinations in one day, or, as it must sometimes happen, three or four examinations in two days, are more than a student can pass with credit or even justice to himself. One hour of exhausting writing would, indeed, be avoided in each examination, but all the other work which an examination brings would remain substantially undiminished. We hope that these facts will be borne in mind when the final decision is made about the mid year examinations.