THE suggestion has been made that students who graduate with good standing from the leading fitting schools should be admitted to Harvard without an examination. A similar plan has already been adopted at Dartmouth, and those who seem so desirous that Harvard should be sui generis may consider this a fatal objection to its adoption here; but there are several advantages to be gained which are worth consideration. This plan would do away with the worry, excitement, and luck which attend every entrance examination. It would remove the feeling that these examinations are the object of all labor, and that after they have been passed there is no more work to be done, - a feeling which is prevalent among the men who come here, and which does not wholly disappear until the Annuals. Again, there would be less of cramming on special points, and of disregard for everything not likely to be on the examination-papers. And, finally, it would do something toward raising the standard of the fitting schools, and thus towards making it possible for Harvard to become, in the fullest sense of the word, a university.