Much well-grounded complaint is heard in regard to the amount of work required in History 13. This course, in previous years, has been noted as unduly hard and exacting. It has required more hours of work than the average course, to do the required reading, not to mention the general outside work which all ambitious students wish to do. The changes inaugurated for this year have increased the demands formerly made on the student. To do the minimum amount of reading on the average lecture and make notes of the matter read, requires from two to three hours, and the student has still his special report to prepare and the general readings to attend to. As but few copies of the books in which reading is required are in the library to be reserved, and as the library is open only during the day, and can be consulted as a rule only between recitations, it is very difficult for students to find the time they need for this reading and the books to which they are referred. This difficulty becomes an impossibility when students have other courses requiring special reading.

Another cause of complaint is the "special reports." The student feels that he is compelled to spend a considerable amount of time in obtaining a piece of information practically useless, at the expense of more important work. Yet if this point of the work is not done, he is given a maximum of 75 per cent., no matter how well he may do the rest of the work. The importance of the course and the necessity of doing good work in it, are recognized by all. The energy and ability of the instructor is also appreciated. Those who have elected his course, in making this complaint would simply call attention to the fact that they have elected other courses also, and the unpleasant choice is forced upon them, of slighting other work for his work, or of accepting 75 as the highest possible mark in History 13, and devoting the attention due their other courses to them.