EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- We have here in college a great number of courses from which to select what we think fit. We have opportunities under the elective system which the students of no other college have. Yet it seems to me that while we have so many courses on so many subjects there is one great deficiency; that one of the most important subjects has been left out.

In fitting oneself for one's work in this world the first requisite to success is health. How important it is, then, that everyone should understand the working of the human body. How many of those who pass through college and without going to the medical school, and enter on their life work,- how many of them have any proper knowledge of physiology? None. Doubtless a few of the athletic men know something about hygiene as far as training is concerned; and I believe we have had a few things called emergency lectures in times past. But I think that every man should have the chance to take one good thorough course in physiology before he leaves college. This matter is something that affects every man. One of England's greatest philosophers of to day places this kind of knowledge as the most fundamental and important of all. It should not be confined to those who make medicine a profession. If people in general had more knowledge of hygiene they would save greatly in every way, to say nothing of actual doctor's bills.

The maxim "forewarned, forearmed," must be taken with restrictions, yet I do think that much more important than physics or metaphysics is a knowledge of the laws of health.

Let us hope that amid the Sanskrit, the fine arts and the romance philology there may be room for physiology.

HYGEIA.