THE custom of making the rank list for the Senior year a part of the Commencement programme was given up last year. This change is on every account to be regretted. It makes many Seniors who do not aspire to a high general average careless about their success in any particular course. Still worse, it leaves all faithful work in any particular course unrewarded; and the new system of Honorable Mention will not remedy this evil in most cases, - in such courses, for instance, as are not preceded by enough hours in the same branch to make up the required eight. And, even in cases where Honorable Mention is obtained, it is just to have faithful work in one special course rewarded. If a student takes, for example, Political Economy for the Senior year, his work in it is absolutely unnoticed and unrewarded. This is wholly wrong; it leaves the indolent without any hope of reward to stimulate them, and the hard-working without any notice of their industry. Many graduates can testify how much a good position in various courses on the Commencement programme was esteemed and worked for, and how many Seniors, for the first time, did work, and realized profit from Senior courses. Let us return, if not this year, at any rate next, to the old system; for the reasons for altering it are not apparent, but the reasons for returning to it are both apparent and weighty.