EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Allow me to express a very general opinion of an instructor's action in publicly ridiculing the mistakes in composition which students made in examinations. With the evident intention of exciting ridicule, extracts are read of themes which have been written under great pressure, when revision was impossible. The instructor starts the laugh, and naturally the students are not slow to follow his example.

It is true that no names are mentioned. But the writer of the faulty expression cannot conceal his embarrassment, when he hears his own blunders publicly laughed at. It is humiliating enough to hear one's own mistakes read before a class, but much more irritating is it to hear an instructor ridicule an unfortunate attempt to tell about the death of a brother. Even if an instructor has no delicacy in mortifying a student in the presence of his classmates, still it would be supposed that the instincts of a gentleman would cause him to hesitate in publicly ridiculing an expression which was intended to narrate a most painful experience. It would at least be kinder to point out mistakes to the writer of the theme, than to read the faults before a class.

L. B. S.