At their last meeting the Board of Overseers recommended that the requirements for admission to special study at Harvard should be raised. If there is one college in the land which presents to its special students less advantages than to the regularly matriculated students that college is Harvard. The enormous increase of courses presented to the regular students over those presented in former years, or those at present presented at other colleges leaves no loop-hole for excuse as to individual tastes and talents which might be better fostered by a special rather than by a regular collegiate course. While special study at a large university will always offer a high premium to lassitude and constitutional langour it can but in few instances be pursued at Harvard to greater advantage than the regular course. The curriculum which is now offered to the regular students is so extensive that a college course can be made to comprehend all that any special course could include. Why then should special study any longer be offered to those who do not care or have not sufficient energy to regularly fit themselves for the college course? But if necessity and policy both require that special students should find at Harvard that elysium which has no dawn and no setting, the government of the college in every sense pursues a wise course in requiring that they who enter the fields of pleasure should prove that they are highly qualified for entrance into the academic shades. The term of college bred must not be allowed to fall into disrepute even at the cost of closing our doors to several men who wish to be Harvard students without working to gain that distinction.