TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON:-

So long as the marking-system exists, so long complaints will be made after every examination, but there is one flagrant case of injustice which should not be passed over in silence. Those who elect a course in French do not expect in a year to learn to write French as well as the Parisians, nor are they told in the elective pamphlet that the examination is to be partly or wholly in French. But when we ask for our marks, what is the answer? "You have a very low per cent, and I feel that you ought to have more, because I know from your recitations that you have done good work; but as you did not write the whole paper in French I was obliged to mark you low." What can be more unfair, since the length of the paper compels one, in order to finish it, to write in English? What would be the result were the same arbitrary rule applied to Greek or German? Half the men would be conditioned. This is a case, I think, that deserves investigation.

THE SOPHOMORE CLASS SUPPER.

TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON:-

ALTHOUGH the Sophomore dinner was pronounced a great success, and everything passed off with great credit to the committee, yet there was one thing which seemed to me desirable to render it in reality a class dinner, and that was one half the class.

That so many stayed away was undoubtedly owing to the large price charged for the tickets, and many undoubtedly felt as if $3.25 for a dinner was rather beyond their means. It seems to me that in such a general affair as a class dinner, an attempt should be made to bring it as nearly as possible within every one's power to attend, and certainly not, as in this case, to go beyond the price charged by previous classes. I most sincerely hope that '82, when it arrives to the dignity of a class supper, will take this matter into consideration.