The examinations close to day, and next Monday will witness the usual change in Harvard life after such severe trials as the "semis," a change that is nothing more than a return to recitations and civilization. It is not for us to say that this has been the most satisfactory examination period in the history of Harvard, for our own knowledge covers but a very small portion of the two hundred and fifty years of Harvard's life. If at any time, for any reasons, an examination period has been omitted, that is, a period has passed without examinations, then we are sure that the present examinations have had more successful predecessors. But, nevertheless, we believe that the past few weeks have been exceptionally successful for their kind. Complaints about examination rooms, about proctors, about hard and unfair papers - with one notable exception - have been exceedingly rare. Evolution is at all times a slow process, but it is strangely slow in the case of the written examination. Still we sincerely believe that after dropping off its appendages, unnecessary and cumbersome, the proctors and long and hard papers, it will finally pass into that which must certainly be its highest end - no examination at all!