AS the tabular view will probably be issued within a month, this is a fit time to express a hope that the abuse complained of last year in regard to the position of History 7 may not again be permitted. It is absolutely wrong, in order to convenience the instructor, to place an elective in such a position that many men will be prevented from taking it. Electives are crowded either because they are valuable or because they are easy. In the first case, students should be encouraged to take them, and if the instructor finds it inconvenient to instruct them all in the existing number of sections, then that number should be increased. In the second case, the amount of work done in the course should be extended. In either case, the expedient of making it impossible for men to take electives without sacrificing other desirable courses is wholly improper. Our system is exactly contrary to the right one; the most crowded electives should be put at the best hours, for the greatest good of the greatest number; whereas the compiler of this year's schedule seems to have sought the greatest evil of the greatest number, by putting the large electives at nine, half past three, or Saturday morning, evidently with a view to preventing students from taking them. The principle of conveniencing the instructors instead of the students is a thoroughly bad one. The result of making a good elective conflict with others is, that the student is forced to relinquish some valuable course, and take one that he does not care to; the result of placing good electives in bad hours is to make students abandon these inconvenient ones, and take up with others because they come at better hours.