While the examinations are going on around us, we daily have the unfairness of examination-marking shown to us empirically. An instance of this was the unusual difficulty of the paper in German 5 yesterday in striking contrast to the extreme fairness of the papers in both English 6, Spanish 2, and Political Economy 4. To be sure, an instructor may, by marking easily on a hard paper, put himself on a par with an instructor who marks an easy paper hard; but the very difference between the papers makes it uncertain that he will do so. This is an old subject, but we cannot hope for fair marking till a more uniform standard is adapted.