A number of men have expressed their desire but inability to enter English VIII because of conflicting recitations. This subject of the hours for recitations is one of no little moment to students. There are some men who, at the close of their freshman or the beginning of their sophomore year, make a plan of their future electives, and frequently they are compelled to omit some very much desired course because the hours of its recitations are already taken up. This is a remedy which, although it might not find favor with our already over-worked instructors, yet because it would be of so much benefit to the students, we feel justified in suggesting it. If the instructors in some of the courses like English VIII, which has but one lecture a week, were persuaded to give the same lecture twice, then the trouble would be done away with; and many students could feel the advantages of the elective system more fully and more satisfactorily.