EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON-We regret to notice in the new Elective Pamphlet for 1884-85 that the faculty have not yet seen fit to do away with the paying of extra fees where Chemistry and Natural History courses are elected. The majority of men while in college elect twelve full courses, and the instruction in these costs them $450. A student intending to make Chemistry a profession would naturally elect besides six miscellaneous courses, courses 1 to 6 in Chemistry. Chemistry 1 and 2 have extra fees of $10 each, the other four courses, of $15 each. Thus, a man who takes twelve courses, six of which are Chemistry, can only do so by paying $80 more than the one who elects twelve courses in other subjects; in other words, at an expense of $530 instead of $450.

It is well to notice here that this is merely for instruction, as additional charges are made to each one individually for breakage and chemicals used. We fail to see why the instruction in Chemistry should cost more than that in the other branches of instruction; surely, many of these courses where the professor only meets the class occasionally, and then only for a few minutes, should not be paid for more dearly than the most advanced courses in History or Mathematics. The students have suffered this imposition for two years already, and it may last several more unless they protest. If the college is in need of funds, it is certainly not fair to raise them by imposing extra fees on men who can ill afford to pay them. The writer of this article will not profit by any change in this matter, but he would like to see redressed, an abuse that has lasted long enough. '84.