IT is with very great regret that we hear of the resignation of the Dean. No officer of the university has gained more entirely the respect and esteem of the students. His official dealings with them have ever been marked with consideration and courtesy. He has ever displayed a real interest in their welfare that has not failed to make itself felt. Student nature is much less demonstrative in its likes than in its dislikes. While it never hesitates to give expression, through the indirect but effective means of satire, to its disapproval of men or measures, it is always rather backward in making any active demonstration of its regard, even though this regard be most sincere. In short, the student delights in raillery, but is averse to sentiment. As a natural consequence, therefore, those who provoke his displeasure expose themselves to some form of caricature more or less mild; while those who gain his regard have for the most part uninterrupted silence for their reward. Silence is the student's mark of approbation. The present case serves to illustrate this. There is not one of us who has not been impressed with the unfailing courtesy and politeness that have characterized the discharge of the Dean's duties; yet it is only now, when the office is to pass into other hands, that it occurs to us to express our high esteem for its present incumbent.