Once more the Conference Committee meets for the discussion of the subject of cribbing. We have done our best to awaken a general interest in this matter, for we believe it one of the important subjects in educational matters of the day. But our call for expressions of opinion has met with a very unsatisfactory response. One of our correspondents, in the CRIMSON for March 29 exclaims: "Why publish disquisitions in your columns on the evils of cribbing and the status of that art at Harvard? Why drag this disgusting subject to the light, and care fully analyze it and pick it to pieces, any more than the subject of thievery or drunkenness?" With this writer we have no sympathy. We would ask him, what special bearing the subject of thievery or drunkenness has on the value of a college degree, or on a college's reputation? On the other hand the facts that cribbing exists, whether in great or small degree, and that it is decidedly an evil in education, are enough to condemn such indifference, or such a desire to be blind to the disagreeable Our Conference Committee deserves great credit for what it has tone, and should receive hearty support in its undertaking.

But as to the method of meeting this evil, decision is certainly difficult. To us no plan seems better than that of trial by jury - the jury to be composed of members of the college. The plain is not without precedent, for already at Bowdoin it has been success fully tried. Also the Amherst Senate has shown itself capable of serving as a judicial body, though not specifically in matters of cribbing, yet in matters relating to general college offences. We believe that trial by jury would not only put a check on the practice itself of cribbing, but also eventually turn general opinion strongly against it. This latter result is far the most desirable and valuable. It is what ought to exist to-day, and every college man should regret that it does not exist. The Princetonian has very truly said of trial by jury: "It would place cribbing within the reach of the only power which can ever exterminate the practice."