WE must earnestly protest against the zeal which certain instructors displayed in the manner of conducting recitations during such weather as that of last week. Faithfulness to one's department is admired by none more than by us. But even in faithfulness, there is a golden mean. Some instructors did have the kindness to dismiss their sections after a short recitation. Others, however, persisted in keeping their sections crowded together, without regard to health, as though students were so many sheep. This may be endurable in some rooms, but in University, especially U. E. R., it is too much for instructors to demand or for students to submit to. Admirable as is this perseverance with which a teacher is willing to subject himself to a temperature of 98 degrees rather than get behindhand in his course, we doubt the right to impose his zeal upon a large number of young men, in such a manner as to endanger their health.