The examinations for this half-year are nearly completed, and they have passed off as a whole with but little friction and unnecessary inconvenience. The college at large is to be congratulated on the results. But pleasant as it may be for those who have completed, or almost completed, this trying undertaking, a hard task remains for quite a number of men. It seems hard that the examinations in two such courses as History XII. and History XIII. should come on these two successive days at the end of the examination period. These two courses cover contemporary periods in the history of Europe and America, so that they have attracted a large number of men to elect them both in the same year. Moreover, they are two of the courses which require very large amounts of outside reading. To complete reviewing and 'grind' up the fine points in two such full courses at the very end of a long continued period of study is rather a hard task for those students who happen to be members of both sections. The instructors under these circumstances ought to look leniently upon the efforts of such men, as it was not their fault that these examinations were put on these last two days.