Those of us who read the daily papers during the hot days of July noticed that a great change had been effected in the marking system. This change was no doubt the outcome of the deliberations about the facts collected by the Conference Committee last spring. All the prominent colleges of the United States were requested to send in a statement of their methods of marking and ranking the students. After a no doubt very careful consideration of all these facts the faculty decided on the plan which was published in the columns of the daily press. This notice was necessarily vague and did not give any of the details which it could only interest the Harvard undergraduate to know. The students have in consequence no exact knowledge of the nature of the new system, and much speculation is heard among them as to how it will be conducted.

We think it fit that the authorities make some official statement of the case to the students. A few words addressed to them by President Eliot would surely meet this demand most readily. Everybody is anxious to know about this change, and it is no more than fair that Harvard's great reforms be at least understood and appreciated by those who are most directly concerned.