One of the committee reports at the last meeting of the Overseers embodied the following resolution: "That in the opinion of the board a more careful attention should be given by the faculty to the administration of the elective system, and that a more careful supervision should be exercised .... over the choice of studies made by students." This, we think, will meet the hearty endorsement of nearly all classes of men, except the smallest and more abject, namely, the seekers after "snap" courses. This regulation, with the one recently announced concerning special students will do away with the objectionable features of our elective system. The professional drone in college is becoming passe, and a man, if he is anybody, must lay claim to some intellectual tastes or ambitions. He must be following, at least, one of the regular roads of mental advancement, not, as it were, dallying with Music 14 and Fine Arts 20 in the groves of idleness.