The recent emphatic condemnation passed upon the marking system by two of Harvard's most successful and experienced professors shows pretty clearly the drift that opinion in the matter is taking among progressive educators, and is especially interesting as indicating the probable views of the Harvard faculty in general as to the system. The question is certainly one of the highest moment in university administration, and the importance of a thorough reform in the methods at present in vogue is becoming more and more clearly recognized. That Harvard will soon find it necessary to move in the matter seems to be an idea that is daily gaining ground. Whether the outcome of any reform will result in the adoption of some modification of the "Amherst system," adapted to the larger requirements of a university, or in some totally new system, it is useless to conjecture; but that a system of ranking and of examination so stuffed with evil as the present one, and so universally condemned by both faculty and students, must soon be done away with is tolerably evident.