Examinations over, the students very naturally wish to learn their marks as soon as possible, except, perhaps, that small number of them who know that they are below par in a subject and want the marks delayed ad infinitum. In the courses in which there are only a few men, an early return of the blue books with the marks on them, is a matter of no exertion for the instructors. In such courses the longing of the students will be quickly satisfied, no doubt. But in other courses, where the men number hundreds, and one instructor has several such, great delay in getting back the examination books necessarily results. Weeks, and in a few cases months, must elapse before the students learn their marks. We can only exhort them to have patience, to reason with themselves on the prospect of their instructors who are toiling through thousands of pages of strange handwriting in their endeavors to approximate the knowledge of the subject in hand possessed by the writers. Truly, the work of grinding up a course and writing about it for three hours, is but slight, compared with the almost endless labor of correcting the books of several large sections.