WE have always thought that we had reason to congratulate ourselves on the uniform courtesy of our instructors, but an instance of rudeness has recently become known to us, which, in our opinion, needs criticism. A student who had been prevented from attending recitations on account of sickness, on his return asked the instructor to tell him the amount of work done by the class in his absence. The instructor declined in a way that, impolite in itself, was rendered doubly so by his peevish manner. An instructor must understand that it lies entirely with himself to gain the respect and to excite the interest of his scholars; the one is an unfailing companion of the other. If he fail to do either, the teacher must blame himself, and should not so far forget himself as to vent his ill-feeling upon the men who are under him.
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