Students taking History 13, are permitted partially to substitute carefully prepared theses on special topics connected with the course, for written examinations. This privilege is also given in some other courses. In one or two of these we believe the writer of a thesis is also allowed to substitue his thesis for the required work in forensics. There would seem to be every reason why this privilege should be extended to other courses as well. Work done on a thesis of this sort is certainly as well done and as thoroughly done as any work a man may do in college, and the faculty therefore should ofter every encouragment to men to undertake work of this sort. As a method of study in higher courses it is certainly invaluable, and it is no more than fair that a man should be permitted to offer his best writing,-writing which is the result of careful investigation and long thought,-as a substitute for forensics, which otherwise must too often be hastily and carelessly written on subject in which one can take no special interest, and to which he is able to devote no special attention.