The ventilation of examination rooms is always a pleasing subject to write upon. But we doubt if it is so pleasing for the students who toil on their examinations in these rooms. It seems to be a regular feature of examination rooms to be too cold when we want them warm and too warm when we want them cool. It may be that students, when under the strain of an examination, are very difficult to please, and therefore their complaints should carry little weight, but we always feel so much compassion for the proctors during this trying period that we think a little more care might be taken on their account if not on our own. Anyone who has suffered under the intense heat which always accompanies an examination in U. E. R., or Massachusetts, must be aware of the difficulties, in addition to the paper itself, which have to be overcome in these unfortunate rooms. If something cannot be done to improve the ventilation of some of the rooms in which the examinations are held, if doors or windows can not be opened, let us hope that as few examinations as possible will be held in these rooms in the future.