EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- At the suggestion of several members of his class in Philosophy IV, Prof. Palmer has set apart certain evenings in each month when he will be in his rooms to receive any men in the course who wish to form a closer acquaintance with him than can be obtained in the class room. The first of these informal receptions was held last Wednesday, and several men enjoyed a very pleasant evening in Proof Palmer's rooms. The example thus set by Prof. Palmer is certainly worthy of imitation by the other professors and instructors in college. It has always been urged against large colleges that in them the number of students is so great that close social intercourse between the men and their instructors is impossible. That this is in a great measure true, is evident from the very slight acquaintance which men in our own college have with their instructor. This is a fact greatly to be deplored; for it is undoubtedly a great deprivation to the men to be unacquainted with their instructors and for the instructor to know but slightly the men they meet two or three times a week during the year.

Prof. Palmer has taken the lead in a movement which certainly will tend to remove somewhat the barrier that exists between the instructor and the student, and every instructor in college should fall in with the movement and every student should do his share to make it successful.