WE understand that a proposition has been laid before the authorities which involves a radical change in the appointment of proctors. All members of a professional school are to be deemed ineligible, and only those who are pursuing some special course of study will be allowed to hold a proctorship. While agreeing that a change for the better can be made, we hope that the plan proposed, if we are rightly informed as to its aim, will not be adopted, because of its unjust discrimination. Men who have gone through college on scholarships and who enter the Law School, for example, need help then as much as at any previous time; and proctorships are almost the only resource, scholarships in the Law School being small and few. If any class is to be excluded from proctorships, it seems to us that it should be tutors, assistant-professors, and professors, who are better able to bear the loss. They have a salary of which they are sure, and though possibly not large, it is enough to guarantee a living, while neither special nor professional students may have any certain means, of support. What right a tutor or professor has to a proctorship, in preference to a graduate who may be practising law or medicine in Cambridge, it would probably be difficult to prove.