EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -In certain courses, hours are set apart by certain instructors, in which a voluntary recitation is held, when the instructor reviews certain subjects in connection with the course. This practice, I think, is very commendable, as very frequently there are certain things which have not been made as clear as the instructor has hoped, and it is necessary that more explanation should be given. But, as has happened recently, when this hour has been set, after all recitations have ceased by the order of the faculty, it seems to me that the practice is both contrary to college authority, and unfair to the students. To be sure, the instructor usually announces that the recitation is optional, put what recitation in a college course is not optional? The necessity of attending a single recitation is not the order of the faculty, with the majority of them, but the fact that certain subjects are taken up which it is for the advantage of the students to attend. Certainly an hour devoted to a general review, or to the answering of questions must be included in this category. As such it seems contrary to college authority. As for the second point, all know how disagreeable it is to have an afternoon's work interrupted the day before an examination. X.'85.