AT this time last year there was a complaint made that one of the instructors in History had refused to tell the men in his elective their marks on the semi-annual examination. We should refrain from repeating the complaint if we had not understood from various quarters that the custom was increasing. It is difficult to discover the especial object in withholding these marks. If a student has not succeeded in passing a creditable examination, it is evidently of the utmost importance that he should know it, in order that he may bring up his average by closer application. If, on the other hand, he has done well, it is equally important that he should be encouraged in his endeavors. Men look at marks in different lights. One may think that he has done well in getting seventy per cent, while another, working for honors perhaps, would think the same mark too low. Whatever may be the pleas for and against marks, as long as we have them at all, it is but just that the student should know the result of his labors, and that, too, as soon as possible after the examination.