To speak of sub-freshman in the sophomore class may doubtless seem to many an awful anomaly, but still even then the phrase must contain an idea, and that idea lies at a greater depth than the mere names themselves. Sub-freshmen don't properly belong in college, but sub-freshmen in the sophomore class! What does it mean? A freshmen proper is expected at the beginning of the year to appear a little verdant, as they say; indeed he is not to be blamed for it. But when the freshman has become a sophomore he is supposed to have set aside his freshman ways. But what are we to think of men who have retained their grammar schoolboy ways and introduced them into their sophomore year at college? Last Saturday in Sever 6 between twelve and one o'clock, we witnessed a sight which carried us back a good many years, to schoolboy days. It is very pleasant of course at proper times and in proper places to have one's early schooldays recalled to mind: but a Harvard recitation room is not a proper place. We wonder that the instructor was so forbearing; he would certainly have been justified in taking much stronger action, instead of merely asking for better attention, as he did.