It has lately been brought to our notice that several instructors have found it in their hearts to confront the members of their courses with hour examinations to be held a few days before the mid-years begin. Such acts are inscrutable and therefore are very hard to deal with, but it does seem as if an hour examination thrust upon the already overburdened students at this season of the year ought not to pass by without incurring a protest. Hour examinations at best are very unsatisfactory performances for they require almost as much examination cramming as three hour examinations and count for almost nothing after all. But an hour examination given within two weeks of the regular examination is an injustice, requiring as it does a devotion to one course equal to that which ought to be given to two. We pray that, for the sake of equity, the hour examinations in question be withdrawn.