EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- Last Monday a communication appeared from a man who seemed to favor hour examinations, "especially in hard or doubtful courses." I think that it is in just such courses that hour examinations are most disagreeable. When a man is in a hard course he works for all he is worth, and the time spend in grinding for an hour examination is taken from other courses, which have to be "cut" or neglected. "Bracing" once or twice a year does not do a man any good if he is lazy, and earnest students do not need "bracing." As to getting an idea of the questions on mid-year papers, anyone can go to the library and see what the questions have been for years, while the questions in an hour examination are often totally different from those given later. As to the fact of these examinations "being excellent tests to let a man see whether he has worked too much or too little," it seems to me that a man is not at all likely to overwork himself in a course, and if a man is going to shirk work an examination which "counts very little" is not going to produce much effect. These "hours" are too much like the system of marking the recitations, and when four at least are set for the weeks before Christmas, when everybody is tired and wants to get home, the thing becomes an outrage. '88.