A slight, but nevertheless important change in college control has within a few months been quietly effected among us. The transference of the oversight over student attendance at lectures from the office to the individual instructors, must be counted worthy to rank among the great strides made of late toward a perfect system of college government. Just as in politics, the nearer the government is to the people governed, the more effective it becomes, so in the case before us. The great reason for this new method of regulating attendance, lies in the fact that each instructor is much better qualified to limit allowable absences than was formerly any central authority, however competent. Then, too, in case of an overstepping of this limit, he will best know how to enforce the proper amount of attendance by depriving the offender of the privileges of the course.

Moreover, the cessation of the old obnoxious calls at U. 5 establishes pleasanter relations between the undergraduates and the office. And added to this is the hope that the instructor will unconsciously be spurred on to make his lectures as interesting and attractive as possible, naturally preferring that method of holding his hearers to the unpleasant one of warning and threats.