EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There are some statements in the article on "The degree of A. B." at the English Universities, in the CRIMSON of the 8th inst, which, I feel sure, you will be glad to have courteously corrected.

Instead of only a few of the colleges of Oxford requiring admission examinations, there are only a very few - less than one fifth of the total number, including the Halls - which do not require them.

Moreover, several of the colleges of higher reputation, such as Corpus, Balliol, Oriel, New College, Christ Church, make that examination sufficiently severe "to be a test of the candidate's being likely to pass the honor B. A. examinations of the university in at least one school."

But the more important point to make clear to your readers is that no matter what the special rules of each college may be, every student must pass three examinations by the university examiners, before obtaining the ordinary B. A. degree; and the first of these viz. "Responsions" has to be passed within the first two terms of residence, and is practically an entrance examination of a very respectable character, to which all students are subject.

The papers set in Latin prose composition are generally of about the same calibre as the historical exercises in the excellent "Handbook of Latin Writing" lately prepared by your able young professors, Preble and Parker.

A main point to be kept in view in this question is that no man who takes only a "Poll," an ordinary degree at the English Universities is held in much respect as a scholar.

At Cambridge there is at some colleges, a longer term allowed before a man must go in for the first of the three university examinations, but otherwise the general tenor of the system is similar. Fear of encroaching too much on your space prevents me from entering into many details which might be of interest, especially as to the papers set at the various examinations, of which I regularly receive copies.

I am gentlemen, yours truly,

E. R. HUMPHREYS.