THE relations of instructors to students have been frequently discussed, but rarely to the advantage of the former. Instructors, it is assumed are invariably as stiff as Prussian grenadiers, and as frigid as icebergs. That there is a lack of cordiality between instructor and student cannot be denied; that much of this is due to the instructor must also be admitted; but that the whole is due to him is not true. Last year a professor who taught four courses, each taken by some 50 or 60 men, repeatedly extended invitations to his pupils to call on him. For this purpose he set apart one evening a week. What was the result? On the first evening exactly three came, the next two, and so on in arithmetical progression. Another instructor has even gone to the trouble of sending formal invitation cards to his pupils, with the same result. Several other cases could be cited to support the opinion that the evil is rooted partly, at least, in the habitual conservatism of students in making new acquaintances by which they might profit. No wonder that professors soon give up all hope of ever bringing about the different relation which is so much to be desired. If it cannot be said that the whole remedy lies with the students, we must admit that it lies with them at least in part.