IN another column we publish a communication upon what the writer considers dangerous concessions on the part of the College to the principle of co-education. The special grievance that has called this forth is that ladies are allowed to attend Professor Hedge's lectures in German 8, - a regular College course, - and that they have come in such numbers that the elective has been assigned to a new room, Harvard 6, in which there are no facilities for writing, and the ventilation is notoriously bad. So far as this is concerned, we entirely agree with the writer when he says that Harvard College was founded for men, and that students, accordingly, should not be put to inconvenience by outsiders. The mere question of convenience can easily be settled, it would seem, by transferring the course to Sever, or to some room where there are tables for the eight men who regularly elect the course, to write at. But regarding the tendency towards co-education, which the writer traces from allowing women to go to the evening readings, and permitting them to attend these lectures, we think that he overestimates the concessions made by the College. Is it not more probable that in the cases mentioned, and in allowing ladies to use a laboratory on days when students do not, the authorities have been actuated simply by courtesy, and by the spirit of liberalism which has done so much for the College during the past few years? From the point of view of the writer, there is, undoubtedly, a certain indecision in the action of the authorities; and the Corporation may, perhaps, very soon be called upon to define the position of the College with regard to co-education. For the present, however, we do not think that it can fairly be said that the College is tending towards coeducation, because it does allow women certain privileges which may be withdrawn at pleasure.