The provisional list of examinations which is published to-day resembles very much those of the preceding years; it is only pleasant things that come as surprises, disagreeable events are always foreseen - casting darkest shadows before.

The examinations that apply to whole classes - notably in the case of forensic tortures - are carefully grouped - as usual - on the last days of the college year; obviously to keep men in Cambridge to the utmost end of the term - why, oh, why should this be? The editorial mind confesses to entertaining in its simplicity the opinion that undergraduates who finish their examinations earliest might better go home to loaf than make life doubly hideous with the revelry of their rejoicing for the unlucky wretch whose examinations are packed into the last few days.