BY the regulations of the Faculty students who are candidates for final honors are allowed to substitute Theses, in their special subjects, for the Forensics of the Junior and Senior years. That this is regarded as a privilege is proved by the large proportion of "honor men" who take advantage of this permission and write one or two Theses in place of the four required Forensics. Now the avowed object of Forensic writing is to give facility and force in the arrangement of an argument or proof. If this is the only object, why need the additional work of looking up and studying a subject, which is arbitrarily given out by the instructor, be added to that which the student already has? Why should not all men who are interested in some special study be allowed to make use of the knowledge they possess in these studies, for the writing of Theses, as the honor men already do? In fact, under the present system of Forensics a student must do double work. He must first study his subject (in nine cases out of ten one which is entirely new to him) and then write his Forensic. If the substitution of Theses were to be generally allowed, one half of this work would be avoided, and an equally satisfactory result, both as regards the instructor and student, would be arrived at.