WHEN the Faculty decided to extend to Juniors the privilege of voluntary recitations, it was not without some apprehension that the friends of this new rule watched the result of its application to any other than the highest class. But every Junior who has at heart his own interests, as well as a proper regard for the reputation and prosperity of Harvard, and a desire for her success in the reform methods which she has undertaken to introduce, must have appreciated the responsibility thrown upon his shoulders during this trial-year of a system which relieves him from the slavery and loss of time required by enforced attendance at recitations, and we shall be much surprised if a faithful performance of duty does not justify the confidence which the Faculty has reposed in the class. At all events, this regulation must have a fair trial, and we should like to know by what right a professor undertakes to annul or abridge this privilege, or to threaten students with conditions, merely because they avail themselves of a right granted by the Faculty ? We had supposed that professors, as well as undergraduates, are amenable to the regulations determined upon by the government of the College, and the former ought to set an example of obedience to the rules established by proper authority. We are obliged to submit to a marking-system, if that can be called a system, in which each instructor acts upon a theory peculiar to himself; and this evil we have endured, because no way has presented itself by which we could escape from it. But is each instructor also to construe the rules of the Faculty in conformity to his own views of the best methods of instruction in an institution such as Harvard College, regardless of the rights and privileges of the students, as guaranteed to them by its government? If so, the sooner it is clearly understood the better; at least for the students.