It is customary during the second half year to have offered the students a course of voluntary evening readings. The selection of these readings is made with great care and through them every effort is made to interest the college in a line of work which will be entertaining and instructive to all, whatever may be the particular work of each one of the students. At one time it is a course of classics, at an other of modern languages. This year a course in Chaucer has been added. Notwithstanding the high merit of these evening readings the students have paid them but small attention. While the evening lectures are well patronized the readings fail to interest the great majority of students. This is a subject which deserves far more attention than is generally given it. It is by listening to these readings that a man can come to feel that there are other interesting studies than those which he pursues. We are too apt to become wrapped up in our own course of study and thus be led to give little or no attention to the studies of others. One evening or two a week could not be better spent than in listening to these various readings and lectures offered us. We would thus come to feel a need of education in a direction before unattempted.