One of the most encouraging aspects of the system of instruction now employed in the university is the indisputable fact that the students are led to do very much more reading than was customary in former years. The figures which we published some days ago about the increased circulation of the month of November are in themselves the best indicators of this change. It would be uncharitable and unreasonable to suppose that the books are taken out and returned unread. We may therefore assert that nearly 2000 more volumes were read in the month of November of this year than in any other month since the university's existence. No true observer can fail to see the obvious advantages arising from this increase in the reading of the students.

We here men complaining that they are tremendously busy, that all their time is taken up with their work, but when we come to analyze the matter, we soon see that at no future time of their life will they have so much leisure. And what sweeter solas is there in leisure than books, "books that ought to be to men what teachers are to boys?"

The library authorities also inform us of the significant fact that the bulk of the volumes circulated in the library are not light, useless novels and romances, but works of solid learning and lasting value.

If the opponents of the elective system approach us, we shall point to the library and let them there learn what wonderful results it is achieving.