Constant complaints are being made that the laboratories are not kept open during the time of the mid-year examinations. It does not seem to be necessary that this department should be closed for almost three weeks because recitations are not in progress. Many men finish their examinations from one to ten days before recitations begin again. To them it would be of great advantage if they could spend some of this spare time in the laboratory. Working out experiments in chemistry is slow work at the best, and any extra time which could be thus devoted to it would lighten the students' labors when he has also to attend recitations. Another class of men have some experiments which they have not completed or wish to perfect, and the time before their particular examination furnishes just the time needed by them to work in, if the laboratories were only open. Anything which will be of benefit to a class of hard-working men without any extra cost ought to be granted by the authorities.
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